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VOLUME XL. COLUMBUS, OHIO, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1850. NUMBER 36. PUBMHIIKD EVERY TUESDAY MORNINO, II V KtiOTT & UAHt'OM. OFFICE IOOTU-KAST COSNES OF HIUH ST. AND Sl'UA ALLEY. TKItMrt Invariably tn mlvnurr. Wwk y per win urn In Columlma '.! 00 Oul of tlin eity ; by mail, inln 1 Tiki una ot lour unit upu nnia 1 2.r Tin nb of ten and upwards, to one address 1 00 Daily, Aaion 8 Trl-WiMily, .lo 1 Weekly do., itiifl To cluhs of bv mid upwards 40 Tlio Journal Is hIik) puldilii-d Dully mid Tri-Weekly during the year ; Diiily p'T annum, by mail, (5 ; Tri Wwkly, $1. Kates of AdveriUlnK Weekly Paper. One square, 10 line or lenj, inw itHcrtiou 4V) SO 11 " 11 each additional 11 0 '--' " " " 1 muntli 1 " " " 8 " s an " " 3 " a on rt 5 IK) " " 12 " S W " " chanjrable monthly, perannum 30 IM) " " wi-emy " v'i Stnndftiff card, onn r)unri or liss, ' 8 IK l 4 coluiiin,vhnnffi;allnqunrlfrly," " U!i bo " " " (Mi (hi 1 " " UK) 00 Other cases not provided for, chargeable in conformity with tin.' atiovn rnti'f, All Icadi'dadrprtincmcnta tobochnrgednot 1pm than doubln tho above rates, nnd mrRfiimt aa If solid. Advertisement on the inniilc exclusively, to w churgml at the rate oi iai per cent, in auviuire on too nnoro rate. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 2!), IBM). Locofo- Co n gross I o mil InveMiKiitiois co Frauds. Tho Locofoco members of Congress seem to have been seized of lute with an itching to investigate the transactions of tho executive offices of tho government. Having themselves hud power for twenty years, they nilurally feel the incompctcunv of Whig to discharge public duties. For omvelvos and in thii wo speak fur ourselves only we Imvo no objection to investigations by Congressional committees. If Whig officers have been unlaitlifnt we ahull feel just as much rejoiced ut their exposure as if they were Locofocos. Wo have noticed already the resolution appointing u committee to overhaul the Department of the Into rior, to seo if any money litis been wrongfully paid out by order of Thomas Ewing to ascertain whether suid Thomas Ewing has usurped power, and to find out who, if any body, in the name Department, write letter or editoriuls for Whig pipers, what are llioir salaries, and all about it. Tho inquiry in regard to the writing for newspapers strikes us an rattier novel. It bring the subject up fur discussion in a view in which wo have nut seen it nan-died, to wit : Is it wrong for persons in ollico to write letters fur publication? If so, then Locofocoism is deeply guilty. Lot us see: The lute biographer of General Cass was a clerk in office at Wushingion. His name was D. F. Brown. He has since been ur routed for forgery and fraud on the treasury. Hu wrote two lives of General Cass one for tho North, and tho other fur tho South. He was for a time General Cans' right hand man. Auotherclcrk uudor Mr. Folk win Douglass Wullach. He wrote letters ugainst General Taylor, very bitter and abusive so much so that Thomas Ritchey rowar- ' dfd him with a gold pencil heavy case must huvo coMt more than the nuuuiil subsciiptiou price of the Union. Wullarli, if we mi t take not, aitouded one entire session of the House of Representatives white in office making u compromise witii his cflieiul duties. We mention only these two instances. Oilier Loco foco clerks wrote for papers. All who hud brains to write, if we nre to believe competent witnesses, wrote. Those who were good at speaking went out into Pennsylvania and Maryluud and urged General Cass' election, tolling monstrous lies to the people every where. Of such was H. F. Drown. Others in office attending nightly Loeofoco club meetings, reported Whig incumbents fur execution and subscribed mouey as they were required. The Commissioner of Patents, Mr. E. llnrko, uow editor of the Union, while in office under Polk, wrote a series of what he called political papers, ami signed the in " Iiundlccund," He has ever since been laboring under a strange hallucination that he is tho American Edmund Burke a copy of tho great English slates-man. As well might a grasshopper imagine himself an elephant. Mr. Uuehanaii, while Secretary of State, K it his post and went into Pennsylvania, making political speeches. How many letters he wrote for publication does nut appear. Wo are inclined to believe they wnro m:tiiy. Commissioner Edwards, of the Pension office a miserable demagogue had two Locofoco clerks under him, who wore for some time engaged iu prosecuting claims against the government. One was a pet of Buchanan's, and the other of Marty, and Commissioner Edwards dared not turn them out. On tho 4th of March, 184!i, when General Taylor camo into power, the Commissioner, to save his own bacon, made them walk the plank I Mr. Samuel Medury, editor of the Ohio Statesman, was Postmaster in this city uiulcr Mr- Polk, and so far as we know was esteemed all (he better lor editing a paper tho like of which for low utid filthy black- L'tiardisui was never sei-n in this country Hut, in and out uf Washington, their name U legion. From the Union down lo the village sheet, the Locofoco press was reeking throughout Polk's Administration, and has been sitice, with falsehoods and 'hin ders from tho horde of Locofoco ullice holders. The whole country knows this is no. Hut this is not all. Mr. Detihy, tho Locofoco Navy Aaent at Franco, abstracts from its lawful use frl.VJ,- 000 of the public money, nnd engages in a apeeulntioi lledeltuilis to that amount, and Mr. Ritchie at on( Hies to his rencae cays ho knows Mr. Dt-uby well- that ho belongs to tho elite that is, the pink of the disiiiiiiuitlti'd Dei uoc rait of Richmond. Then comes Mr. Scott with Ten Thousand gone can't pay up tn tho Treasury. Collins, of Cincinnati, is the next mar lyr. His was no small sum. Mr. Kly Moore, of New Vork, in the coolest manner mhhiMc puts it out uf his imwer to pay the Government some t '0,000 of 1 licit own money. Mindly, Mr. Wet more, n disbursing agent of tho Polk Administration runs his ami into Uu 1 cle Sam's pocket and makes otf with one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars, a part of which he finally Hgni?; to fork over on conditions. Col. Weller, of the Mexican Hound. try Communion, one of the lut a-pointiueiila of tho last AdmiuiMnitiou, manages to hugger-mugger nway eleven thousand dollars which he don't choose to account for. Whether he bought goods with it uud transported litem at tho expense of the Government for private spallation, or allowed others to do so, or wasted the money oven in a less reputable way, we shall not stop now lo inquire. The mouoy is gone. We mtjiht mention a lot of snrill cases six hundred and odd ilollar defaulters up to tivoorsii thousand but no matter for the proncut. The Locofocos in Congress havo never once thought of investigating any of these cases, or proposed to inquire into the conduct of any of tho Individuals which we Imvo named atmvo. We propose that they at nn o do so, ami we hope the subject will not be passed over by the Whigs in the House. For Mr. Ewing wo havo no fears. Ho has nlways beeu able to take caro of himself, and wo think he is good for twenty or thirty such committees ns Mr. Richardson's renolution creates. If there are any Whigs in office in Washington who have seen lit to express tin tr views through the press in an independent nnd becoming maimer, wo trust they will not permit themselves to be moved by any Loco foco committee of Inquiry. If tho holding of an otiti c destroys the freedom of thought and its just, lcgiii iiiato expression, we ran only advise our Whig friendi thus situated, lo resign at once. Wc can1 not whether the position is high or low. What say onr brethren of the press t paragraph, Wo nre not among thus who4deuy Con gress the constitutional powers to form governments tor territories in their embryo state, &o, yet wo must insist on tho injustice of that portion of the Statesman's article which attempts to saddle the delay of the ad mission of California on the Whigs, while the Locofocos have a mnjority iu each branch of Congress and refuse to act according to tho recommendation of the President's message nt the oponing of the session. The fact is, Southern Locofocoism hud resolved to make up an itittc at homo with the Administration on this question, and charged President Taylor, as did Mr. Inge of Alabama, with an eflbrt to smuggle Califomiu into the Union as a free State. Mr. Clay at the first of tho session ollered a series of resolutions, and made a speech iu favor of tho admission of California as a tepa-rafe measure, which was denounced everywhere by Southern Locofocos as surrendering everything practi cally to the North. If Northern Locofocoism had stood up to his position, and not played second fiddle to its SmithiTU allies on exactly opposite pretences, California would have been admitted long ago; but Mr. Clay probably got tired at last of standing a fire from both sides without any thanks, and has fallen back on the wishes of bis slaveltolding constituency. The test voto in the Senate published in our paper of tho 25th iiist., shows (counting absentees) n majority of Whigs tnlavorol admitting California in aieparate bill, and two fkirdi of tho Locofocos opjtosed to it, which is a satisfactory answer to the Statesman's query, why Cat toriiia is not admitted T His own parly are REspomi- di.e, because tho Administration has no majority iu Congress to carry out its recommendations, The peo- pie loo will recollect this tact nt the noils. , What is tho position uf parties at the South on the admission of California, as a State? The Whig Senate of Tennessee, nt its lust session, passed resolutions m favor of admitting California, which tho Locofoco Mouse rejected, and wanted to appoint dolegates to the disunion Nashville Convention. To test, then, the sincerity of tho Statesman in abandoning tho and- Wettern ground taken by Gen. Cass, in delaying the admission of California on the pretext that tho South will stave it off perpetually in tho House by calling tho yeas and nays, wo want to know if it wilt join us in calling upon the press every, whero to urge tho Houso of Representatives to pass the California hill forthwith, and send it to the Senate, so that the Compromise committee will no longer have any pretext to mix the subject with any other ques tion r It is tune something was done. Tho rules must be clumped, if necessary, to prevent a faetiom minority from impeding legislation. A deep feeling against cowering under threats is fast taking hold of the public mind. Lot our Representatives; bo firm, a free press will sustain them, and denounce traitors, while such men ns Bright, Dickinson and Sturgeon, whoso terms all expiro this your, will bj held to a severe uc tint by their cotntitueuts. Ho, then, for a united Western movement ol au. parties to push California through the Houso of Representatives, before tho North and tho South bargain us away in tho shambles for tho Presidency. Let tho West curry this point, ana tueti as a conservative third power, slio may arbi trate with dignity ou the questions iu dispute about ilavery. Indiana must mark her recreant Senator, if she hopes for the sympathy of New York and Penn-svlvatiia iu a strugglo emphatically Western, iu which ic swelling voice of the great valley of Mississippi may already be heard in the murmurs of the Press from Cincinnati to New Orleans against the wretched policy of Congress toward our young sister of tho Pacific. Wo might multiply extracts to prove the state of public feeling, but at present we wilt only refer to tho article ot the Statesman, which gives promise by the way tlmt ou this question, for once, we can pull together in the support of Denton and tho Administra tion. 'I' llC MltUlllUII Oil t'lllaTol'llill. Wo congratulate our neighbour fur his article on this question Thursday evening, and that he has nt length come to the conclusion lo join iu, what ho termed a few days ago, the " Ewing movement." Well, wo are glad that the "Cilicn" has so much of (ho western man about him that he cannot stand ovory tiling Cass does, hut comes up manfully to lite support of President Taylor's recommendation to admit California as a State orAmA, ami wo thiuk it fortuuato, perhaps, that our nditorial ou this subject, which was prepared last Monday, was delayed by the proas of other matter un til the Stati'stnau had committed tlselt on the nAside for wo fear that its perusal might have induced our neighbor to take the contrary, ou the favorite theory of his party which defines " Done h-racy to bo, opposition to whatever the vi lugs advocate. ' However, our sat isfaction is so great in having the aid of tho organ of Ohio Locolocotsra In an etlort to compel Cass, Drijjit, and Whitcnmb to voto for tho vnconditional admission of California as their western constituents demand, Falsehood Exposed. 1 The Statesman says that the Whigs pledged General Taylor us friendly to tho proviso, and that ho would use his official intluence to introduce it into our Mexican territories. We wilt not characterize this atrocious calumny as it deserves. We venture tho assertion that it can produce no respectable paper or respectable speaker iu the Union that has ever done any such thing. Tho ed itor of that sheet knows as well as he knows he exists j tint ho was penning a falsehood when he wrote it. The position tnken by tho Whigs was tins. Gen. Cass, in his Nicholson letter, declared the proviso un- constitution;!!. Ho maintained that Congress had no power to pass any such law. Gen. Taylor declared that, on nil questions which had been settled by the uniform acts of tho Government and acquiesced iu by the American people, ho would not interpose the veto mwer. bvery body knows that tho proviso has boon pontedly recognized by tho Government. President Polk signed the Oregon bill with tho proviso iu it. The Whigs argued that Cass would veto the proviso bo- ause he hid in substance said so in the Nicholson let-! ter; but that Taylor had iu substance, utid clearly by implication said, that if Congress adopted the proviso he would approve it. This was the argument. It was legitimate. It clearly made Taylor the preferablo can didate for proviso men. So argued the Whigs. So they atill argue. Their position has just as much force to-day as it had two years ago. Wc havo seen nothing to weaken it. Wo havo never said or supjxisod that Taylor would it so his official uifiuenco in favor of it. Hut wo think equally certain that ho will not use executive iulliieiico and the veto againtt it. We chal lenge the Stiiiestmiu to produce any other argument from lugs d Ohio. And if bitter enders wish to try tho experiment, let them adopt the proviso in Con- gross, and wo shall see whether tho President will ve to the bill. Dare they do it T Wo invito the test A lloH'lc t use. The 0trr-rsuafcrf candidate for the Convention from franklin cn., who does up tho editorials of the "Ori- tlammo " of Ohio Democracy, ha been euuniied for six month in the hopeless tuak of persuading himself that the Journal is the special organ of the Secretary of the Interior; and inhisSatunlay's paper ho tloundors through several nark look in l columns to prove stint our suiMMirl of tho hitminii4iratioti is all designed to advance thi: end! Well, this i' an argument. Hut wo had not hoped for the assistance of tho Statesman quite so soon to help us out. Wo know tho Editor's proclivity to keep on tho sido of the majority if he knew when that was to bo, but wo find him on hand earlier than we expected. Tho logic of tho thing is, however, the strongest part of the case! We support tho Administration plan of limtting California in preference to that or Messrs, Footo, Cass, Whitcomb, Dickinson, Clay, &o. Wo say California ought to be admitted without carrying the load of Texas boundary, slave catching, &c., &c. Th Statesman gets its eyes open, and, though disliking to w the lend oi tho Journal nnd tho Administration, linnlly comes out with an article giving his full ai ion to tho Administration, and tho doctrines of tho Journal on this topic, nnd deliberately denounces and throws overboard its leaders of 18 18, Cass A. Co. Si far, all right. But tho next day the Editor makes tho astounding discovery that all our support of the Ad ministration is a rM to advance the claims of Ewing for the Presidency! Will this astute logician be so kind as to inform his friends wherein this support of th Administration tends to elevate Ewing any more than it does Taylor, or Meredith, or Coilainer, or Clayton, or any other member of tho Cabinet f And while ho is carrying out tho argument, and framing this syll giitiic battering-ram, will he tell us which member the Cabinet Ac is bought up to support for the Pros) deiicy f If the argument is good for any thing it provi him part kept eriminu, with the Journal ! If this pateerfnl effort does not convince the people that tho Journal is tho " Ewing organ," then it may safely be given up as a hopeless cane. Washington Correspondence. Washington, April 24. The Compromise committee have had but one meeting, and will not enter upon the consideration of the matters presented to it until ufter the return of the Senatorial delegation which accompanied tho remains of Mr. Culhoua to Charleston. But nobody appears to be in the least suspend as to what will be the result of the committee's labors, and therefore but little solicitude is felt ou account of the delay. It will not accomplish much iu the way of adjusting difficulties ; at least this seems to bo the general impression ; nor will any material progress be made in tho matter until personal interests are mado to givo way to sound judgment and common sense. Every thing seemed clear and auspicious while the Whigs manifested a disposi tion to adopt the safe and emmently practical sugges tions embodied iu the President's special message ; and it is tho opinion of our soundest men that but little can bo hoped for until there is a return to those suggos tions. At one timo it was known that there was a de cided majority in both Houses iu favor of tho admission of California as a separate and independent measure.; but an extraordinary exercise of parliamentary tactics hat distracted and divided that majority, and involved tho result in doubt and obscurity. If it shall appear at an early day, as it is to be hoped itinay, that no " omnibus bill " can command tho approval of the House, there will assuredly boa return of light, bring ing to tho view the prospect of tho udmistinn of California in tho only way she can bo admitted, in a sepa rate bill. That boiug accomplished, attention can bo directed lo suitable legislation fur tho Territories. If the proper course can be hit upon lor thein, a course upon which both Houses can agree, the people will be satisfied; and if not, then, as u necessary consequence, those territories will remain as they are until the people thereof can determine for themselves, by the adoption of orgauic regulations, tho nature of their domestic institutions, and every body will readily acquiesce. With this view of utlairs I shall watch with much interest tho action of the Houso on Mr. Doty's bill, which will very soon bo again brought forward. I am glad to be able to announce tlmt tho compact negociatod by Sir Ilonry Dulwer and Mr. Cl'iytou in regard to the Nicarauga perplexities has been sent to the Senate and is now before that body for its consideration. It is understood that its terms will prove eminently satisfactory to the American people, as it secures to us all tho rights we havo cluiuied and stipulates for a total abandonment ou tho part of Groat Britain of all her pretensions to sovereignty in that country. When the full meauro of embarrassment is known, which encompassed the negociution, iu consequence of the oxt inordinary blunders of tho last Administration, it will be seen that Mr. Clayton has achieved a diplomatic triumph of which ho and the entire American peoplo may well ho proud. It is understood that tho Gal phi u committee hns nearly closed its labors; and we havo a right to infer from the givings out ou the part of certain individuals, that tho upshot wilt bo a comploto vindication of Sec- rotary Crawford from tho slightest suspicion of dishonorable conduct. The report, however, will bo so voluminous that few will over read it; and it is not doubted that an unscrupulous pat tizan press will labor desperately to misrepresent and distort it to the dis paragement of Mr. Crawford. Wo shall see how suc- cesssfulsuch an effort will bo. The bitter-enders of the Houso huvo managed to raiso a special committee, on pretexts the most flimsy and unwarrantable, to investigate the conduct of Secretary Ewing, in the allowance of certain claims gainst his Department, and iu tho appointment of rks in certain Bureaus ot lits Department. There not the slightest ground in the world for the accusa tions which havo been brought against him, and it is manifest that tho solo object of instituting (he committee tpargere ambigna vocct to engender suspicion in minds of tho people towards that fearless and in corruptible statesman. It is a low and contemptible Locofoco trick, more properly b 'fitting the character f tho rough Domocracy of the Ohio Legislature than at of an opposition in Congress. Hut iu this partic ular the object sought will not ho gained. The whole attempt will, from tho very start, stand out in such ild relief in tho character of n monstrous outrauo as cover with etornal infamy tho few scoundrels who are guilty of its inception. Tho mode of raising the committee was altogether unprecedented, and was carried by the agency of a villanous fraud. Tho uniform mode of proceeding iu such cases is, first to call pon the Cabinet officer against whom complaint is mado, for an explanation; and if that prove insufficient or unsatisfactory, then institute a committee and proceed to the investigation. Hut iu this case, with- mt any direct ovuleuce whatever, with nothing save io lowest scandal of irresponsible loiter writers and ihamelesi press, a bill of indictment is presented by io grand inquest of the nation against otio of tho con stitutional advisers of the President. As was forcibly stud by tho Hun. A. II. Stephens, of Georgia, no and jury in any county in the United States would vo proceeded in such a matter towards even the owest member of its community. The prosecutor would have been required to produce some tangible evulonco. Neither .Mr. riwiug nor tit- melius in House have at any time objected to tho mostscrutiniing inquiry that hu can possibly bo subjected to i but they hud a right to ox poet that it would proceed in the usua way. They accordingly proposed, first to call upon Mr. Ewing for au explanation ; and let it bo re mem- bored that the leaders on tho Democratic sido of the Houso agreed to go for sin h a call il tho House would rat appoint the committee, it being understood that tho Secretary's explanation shou'd go to thocommitteo : uud immediately after tho committee was appointed, they whirled around and objected to tho call ! Now I verily beltevo that Whitman and Moiilort, ami ter would, each and all, have spurned such n trick with iireat contempt. The committee is also authorized ami directed to in drohow many persons holding office by appointment from Mr. Ewing nre correspondents for newspapers, Mr. Stanley proposed to extend this inquiry to the appointees of tho last as well as the present Administra tion; but the proposition was at onco objected to and ruled out of order ! It is notorious that, during the exisletteo of all the Locofoco Administrations, the De partments swarmed with men who woro continually neglecting their official dutiet tn order to give llioir attention more effectively to letter writing ami other parti- lan appliances; and every body knows that Burke, hile Commissioner of Patents, found tune to write tho Bnndlecundo letters and to attend to the duties n chairman of tho National Democratic Executive Com mittee. So, too, the illustrious Win. J. Brown, when 2d Assistant Postmaster General, and his very worth compatriot and namesake, B. F. Brown, wln n in the 2d Auditor's office, the scene uf his subsequent Jinan cial operations, found timo toporambulate all the conn- try round about for tho purpose ot addressing political meetings. These things were so common that tiioy oc casioned but little remark. And now, forsooth, it proposed to inquire, not wtiat officers neglect their du ties for narttxan purtHisos, but what ones have the bod audacity to avow a sentiment through the press, matter what tho time or season. I doubt not that ai member of tho presout Cabinet would tako very prom notice of official delinquency among his officers, what ever the pretext might hu; and I have ns little doul that there is tho slightest disposition to restrain the disfranchised residents of this District iu tho legitimate exercise of tho freedom of speech. Those Locoloco gentlemen who think otherwise, are, as I humbly con- ivo, very large fools. Gen Houston has returned in excellent health and spirits from his recent vim l tn Texas, and reports that his Stato is still tho sumo immense whole, just as though it hud not been shivered into livo several frag ments by Mr. W cbater's speech. TUE8DAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1850 The HU Loul Truuody The Ittonte- q ii toil h. The trial of tho brothers Moiitesquious is ended and tho jury have nut been able to agree. Tho jury stood as follows: For the acquittal of Gomtalvo (the eldi brother,) seven; for his conviction, five. For the ipiiltul of Raymond, eight; for his couvictiou, foui The trial excited great iuterest, and was conducted tho most orderly, decorous manner. For ourselvi we never doubled the insanity uf tho young Metic men. The total absence of any motive for such conduct, together with the fact that insanity is a hereditary com plaint iu their family, satisfied us iiHn this point. The HuiiKiirimiau We see by the papers that Ujhuzy, late Governor of Comoro, with his lady, two daughters and three sous, Major Borauyi, Captain Gakuis, Captain Ri menyi, uitd Captain Gousuthz, left New York on tho 1.1th instant for Iowa, to select limd for their settlement, and for such of their bravo compatriots as may join them, They have taken the right steps to become citizens of the great American republic. In a farewell address from Gov. Ujhazy, in the new York papers, he says : " lo these shores I was driven by tvranuv i to tin fields of the West I am now borne bv tho desire of winning from Mother Earth what is mj necessary to tho American Republic, a free and independent exist- eels there a single bosom iu the United Status that does uot feel au ardent sympathy for these emigrants, and that does not wish them all the happiness which a state of exile and the recollection of tho misfortunes of their country will permit 1 We trust there Is not one, yot it is well known that Mr. Walsh, our consul at dec lured the Hungarian outbreak not to be a itatiunul uttuir, but seemed to deem it only the desperate effort of selfish lenders. Mr. Walsh is well known ns the correspondent of one or moro influential papers in thi. country, and he writes dowit Kossuth as a mean, cal culating coward, and this very Governor Ujltuy, us rather entitled to our abhorrence instead of our sympa thy. The question readily occurs why tliis consul who has so outraged public opinion in this country is permitted to return his plucc, especiali jrwa it was an nounced months ago, apparently by authority, that he would be speedily superseded. It would seem that Mr. Clayton, siuro the publication of his letter to Dudley Maun, and the disclosure of the policy and sentiments of the Administration in regard to Hungarian affairs, would feel it to be inconsistent to keep Mr. Walsh iu his place, for his retention certainly implies approbation of his course. If the Administration meiin to be regarded us sincere, (and tlmt they are so, there is not a particle of doubt.) iu their expressions id' sympathy for the Hungarians, they must not siihtuiu a public agent in the focus of European intelligence who is tho re viler of their course and the champion of their oppressor, the Autocrat of all tho Russia. Stuco penning the foregoing wo have seen the B- ton Courier from which wo copy the following, which Htrougty corroborates our views. Wo think that no fear of the cry of proscription should caime tho Administration to hesitate long iu u cuc of this kind. We have no doubt tho general voice of the country, and the trtio understanding of our position on the Hungarian question among the nations of Europe require somo action on tho part of the Executive. If wo are io bo held reBpoiHible for (ho opinions uud writings of nr diplomatic agents abroad, those agents should cer tainly represent correctly tho feelings and views of the Administration : FonEio.v Influknck. Our attention has been called to several letters from Europe, recently published in various parts of tho country, relating to the intluence of American public alhiirs on tho oilier sido of the At lantic, us exerted there in n manlier hostile loino spirit nl American institutions and tho liberal tendencies of rhengo. It has been remarked, in connection with this topic, that the persevering eitorts of am-h men as Robert Walsh, with the journals they have known how to control and intluence, have greatly contributed to check that -sympathy tho American people would else have left with the struggles of the Italian patriots. No n 1st the samo may bo said, to sumo extent, ol the uiiganati struggle. Nevertheless, the pcopto of this country are, nine out of ten, well-wishers to the progress of liberty in uropo. no iiouoi Mr. v aisu, iroio ma umciui pow toll, exercises some influence hostile to this cause, by 'tins of his letters. This influence increased, so r as it is supposed ihat his views uro acceptable to r government, lint tins is not the greatest unscniei tho cae. Mr. VvuUh s writings in favor of Austria l the Emperor id' Russia, uud a-uiiiMt Hungary, issuth and his compatriots, are largely rend in Eu-pe. They ore considered as, to some extent, official, d therefore seeming to reproaeiit our country and government us taking part with legitimation, they are ry well calculated to dishearten tne irieuus oi nuer-and to slreiiijlhen the cause of despotism. Aeeor- iing to the letters wo have seen, it appears that in aly, at leat, (nud doubtless elsewhere) the intluence our government hns been actually un tint side ol via an, Aoit in. This is certainly a mutter which demanos the notice f tho administration. Why is the recall ol Mr. Walsh, iino time since announced, thus delayed I Has the bniuistration changed its views, nnd do they now Mb to endorse Mr. Walsh s political opinion? f Willi hat consistency can they avow sympathy for llunga- , while their most active, eincieut ami outer oiieniy kept in n station which gives power and i -fleet to his nslilitv I Why ore such men us Nile, at Turin, and Cass, nt Rome, continued iu their place, while tln-ir conduct is such as is represented f In regard to the latter, n writer from Italy, who evidently speaks from iiowledue. avs No human being could Imvo been more untitled ty em per, nanus ami manners, ami ny a iouii want oi plomatic skill and tact lor such u cnticut emergency, as was Mr. Cass. To this hour he lias not recognized he Criminals who rule iu Rome in the maimer ol the pe, and remains in Rome (receiving his salary) in a rt of amphibious state, being " neither fidt, Hesli nor d horrinu." It is not now dented by his iutimai friends that he was, from his arrival iu Home, inimical to Roman Freedom, and desirous ol (ho overthrow tho Republic nnd the ultimated res torn lion of tho Pa pal rower; uiueeu, no acKnowieuifus as mum iioiieu era. having exhausted their vocabulary of abuse ou the subject of proscription, are preparing now to turn in their wrath on their own party friends in office, on the presumption, we suppose, that a Locofoco officeholder is bound to commit even official peculation, if thereby ho can bring reproach on a Whig Administration. Pros ident Taylor is abused for removiug such men, and yet he is hold responsible if ho trusts them and they steal to furnish a theme for party capital to their Ineuds. The false rumor about Mr. McLaughlin originated in the fact that about three months ago a temporary mail agent purloined mouey from a letter at Springfield, belonging to Baldwin, Dibble and Work, Now York. The discovery was made through the vigilance of the clerks at the Columbus post-office, and our Whig Postmaster deserves great credit for the promptness with which he acted iu the matter. Mr. Matthews, the agent, immediately proceeded to Springfield and arrested the delinquent; and wo insist that tho character of Mr. McLaughlin, who is entirely innocent, shall not be martyrized by his own political friends ufter he has escaped the axo of tho " bloody Taylor dynasty." United Suites Marshal for Ohio. On the 27lh iust. Gen. G. A. Jones of Mt. Vernon was confirmed as U. S. Marshal for the State of Ohio. All right. Full Particulars of the Disaster to the ltelle of the West. Cincinnati, Friday morning, April 2G, 1800. Ou Monday evening, 2-M inst. 6 o'clock, the Belle of the West left the Port of Cincinnati bound for St. Louis, with about two hundred and fifty or moro passengers, including deck and cabin all told, with a crew of lortv in number. No freight was taken out of the hold after the boat left this port, and nolhini; done, and the hatch es not raised, except the usual examination of the watchman, previous to the discovery of the smoke. When opposite Florence, In.. I discovered smoke is suing through tho joints of tho forwurd hatch, which Save me some uneasiness, when I called for one of the eck hands, who was standing near, to raise the hatch to see if the cause was below : the appearance of more smoke proved my suspicion to bo correct, and I immediately ran lo the hurricane deck and ordered the pilot to laud the boat, that there was tire in tho hold. Next eturncd to said hatch ami found two men had gone down with the hose. I ordered them to get up alt and got all tho pasrtengors on deck forwurd, while I went through the cabin us.-is ted by the second Clerk, and Stewurd to wake up tho passengers, which I did with all the speed Hssible, ami exerting them to prudence that the boat wus ou firo in tho hold. "Save your lives, and leave baggage, the boat is lauding, and all may escape if you will act prudently." The awful scene that followed, nftor the alarm, you can better imagine than 1 can describe, from the lust time 1 discovered the smoke until the boat wan landed, which I do not think wax outsido of tivo minutes. hud under my protection a lady, the wife of Major Vincent Phillips, ol Hullidaysburgli, Pa., whom I felt very anxious about, as she was iu the very extreme end nt tho ladies' cabin, and the only lady unprotected on board to my knowledge. I worked my way through to tho room, and pushed tho door open, found her get- up, Iciving heard the ulurtn, but was dressed o ily in part. I told her to come quick, the boat was ou fire. She handed mo a portion of her clothes and turned to get her trunk. 1 told hor to let tho trunk romoin she might loose tier lite, as both could not be saved. Many had gone ahead nt us, but I succeeded in uettiui! her out on shore, when she requested me to leave her, and return to the assistance ol others, tlint she could get up the bill without assistance, as it was not steep. Up to this time the tire had not reached the cabin floor. On my return 1 met many who were trying to save baggage; and many children were pushed and crowded off the gangway into the water. I then went in and pulled them out one after another, and passed them to the more, and 1 then cleared the gangway ol trunks and boxes for the passengers to make their escape ; at this itiHtaut, I discovered a keg of powder, which I gather ed up and halloed 'powdkr,' at the same lime holding it up that alt who might see it, would understand my meaning, if they could not hear mo, to escape from the edi cts of an explosion. For me to escape was impos sible, should any more be iu the hold. After makiug tho exhibition, I went into the river with the keg in or der to get it entirely out of the roach of fire, but unfor tunately the current wus carrying it towards the fire again, I then run in and got it out, at which timo the ate came and took it from me and curried it to the river below the boat. Samuel Masters, the carpenter, used every effort to Hex in the hold to scuttlo the boat, but un raising the hatch, so dense was the smoke and heat that it was im- posnible. Iu t lying to replace it, a fireman, who was assisting mm, fell down throiiL'h, I io carpeiiitr, iu vught him by the heels as ho b THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 25. 18.il). The Steamer Anthony Wayne. A letter from a gentleman of intelligence at Sandusky to us states that the number of lost will probably amount to about 100. Many incidents of a most distressing character are related. Our Wend informs us that the feeling against the captain is very strong and general among the passengers. We hope he may be able to remove the imputations that are uow against him. We do not see any upology for his getting into the principal boat with some half dozen others of the crew aud brutally repelling the attempts of ull the passengers, struggling in the water, to get into his boat. Our friend mentions thut one womuu, from near Spriugfield, Ohio, with hor young child, is at his house. She saved her child by binding it to heraelf with a blanket and then sustaining herself by the sash of the saloon. Her ringers were out to tho bone. She was taken off by the mate, to whom much praise is due for his efforts to save the perishing. The Manorial Titles In New York. For several days past a very interestiiic aud excitim? trial has beeu guing on at Hudsou. N. V.. involving the validity of tho titles to tho immense manorial estates of the Livingstons iu and near tho Hudson rivor. John Vun Duron was the leading attorney for tho tenants. uud has managed their defence with decided ability. I Upon a motion tor a nonsuit, the cause wus suspended I from tho jury, and the parties finally agreed that tho questions of law and of fact iu tho case might be determined by Judge Wright, before whom the cae was tried, at a special sitting at Albunv on the 27th inst. Tho defence rested upon the ground that the patents Livingston were void, having been obtained bv and at the time. This case is oue involving immense consequences to a large population of that State. Wheat uud Flour. From different parts of tho State the accounts seem be favorable for a good crop of Wheat the present season. Iu many sections, our correspondents write tiiutihe prospect it very hue. Iho price of Hour in the Eastern cities is vet low. and the prospect is uot very encouraging for au increase. The very heavy failure of the Wheat crop in Ohio, tho past sousou, has uot effected the price to any perceptible degree, at all events has not advanced (ho price, as many supposed it would. Tho immense Wheat fields i Now York, Pennsylvania, Indiana. Michigan. Slc. have kept up tho supply and kept down the price. Tho quality of the Wheat of Ohio last your was very poor, uoouriour cannot very well bo mado from hrivelled Wheut. Some of our millers have succeed ed iu making a very excellent article by taking extra pains iu separating tho Wtieat so as to remove the defective kernel. We have seen and have used in our family a very excellent article of Flour, made at tho Koscoe mills ou the Muskingum, and think it fullv uai to any wo nave over used. This Flour is kept Hand and for sale by Woodbury & Field, grocers, f this city, where our citizens cun be ture of finding gardly estimate of its service in enligktenius mankind wiin o-ei'isimis ol u, Supreme Court. Mr. H:ile ollered a resolution the other day, referring tins subject to the committee on Printing for inquiry and a report. I hope they will not forget to call Mr. toote t the stand, and nut forget to inquire how Mr. Kitchiecaiiie to be asked to sit in judmuit onhis own inui. when this resolution has been sufficiently digested, there is anuthor nice contrivance by some philologists called " pickings "pending before the Senate, intended to serve the same end uud for the benefit of tho samo parties, which shall receive the benefit of public inspection. The Union was voted i 10,000 bold-ya few years ago by a Locofoco majority, without having a particle of claim. The Printing committee of the Senate shall not slide another upprupri.niou of tho same kind in, as thoy now propose, without a little exposure. They may vote the money, but they shall also " face tho music :" tor whoum m u-nll Minblt.il in dance as thoso who are compelled to pay the piper. INDEPENDENT. The Whigs of Darke county lend off in their nominations fur the fall elections. Our friend George Ward, Esq., is ro-no mi hated as tho candidate for Represeniu-tivo. This is ull right. Mr. Ward was well liked as a member last winter, and won the favorable reward of that we will make no comments about the cold cut by I the members generally. We hope and trust he will be the editor at the doctrine of the Nicholson letter in the I re-elected. ITT A correspondent of tho N. Y. Tribune, writing from St. Josi-nlis. Mo., computes the overland emigra tion this year at 50,1X10. Now if wo allow each of them 300 as au outfit, tho aggregate will bo fifteen million dollars taken fruin the country hy litis outlet nloue. As much or moro bus gone by the way of the Isthmus, and if wo reckon tho vessels, goods, aud mer-elniiuliso tfenoiidlv. sent lo California, the amount will be moro than one hundred millions withdrawn from the active capital of tho country. In return, only thirteen millions liavo been received from that country. Taking this fuel in connection with the diminished cob ion and tobacco crop of lust vear. the liidit foreign do- . inn t id fur agricultural productions, and our increased imports, and our laitii in tho ruciitterutivii energies oi our country must bo strong indeed, if we believe she will pass too crisis without a shock that will reach tiic very centre of our commercial and manufacturingsystem. The Oibiuet. Tho National Intelligencer slates from authentic fo rmation, that all stories which have beeu put afloat about discord in the Cabinet, and the wish of Gen. Tay or to make changes, are groundless and fulse. Such denial, we presume, will put an end to that sort ol stories for awhile. Wo havo noticed for somo timo intimations from cer tain Whig letter writers, that a change in the Cabinet was probable. Wo learn from other sources thut certain Whig members of Congress have been willing to add weight to these rumors, in the hope of producing a hange. But the Intelligencer says that the members of the Cubiuut gel along well together, and that the resident does not desiro a change, aud will not be maxed into making one. This is right. Wo believe that some uf the members of the Cabinet are men who itiug less political strength and iiillueuce to tho gov- eminent than others who might be found to fill their places. But wo have hoard of no want of ability or fidelity on their part, in the performance of the duties itf their respective stations. And wearogludthat Gen, Taylor is nut the man to be driven by a little or a good deal of outsido manu'uvemtg, to change Ins purposes, Those who expect to find him either a weak or a wa vering mall will be dianppniuted. It is decidedly a poor business, in our opinion, for Whigs in Congress or out to lend thcuiNelvea to such movements. lb Whias of the country havo no atretiih to spare in that sort of controversy with one another, should uisr Bit. Taylor find it proper or convenient to re-arrange is Cabinet alter awhile, ii wot.'d bo nothing new or strange. But wo have no reason io suppose no con templates anything of tho sort. It no did, wo trust In would nevor do It under circiimstaiicin unfavorable to tho reputation of tho gentlemen concerned. Win thev took their places with him in tho Executive Di pnrlments they accepted situations of responsibility and peril. It was foreseen Hint a majority ofOungre would attempt to discredit the Administration by ut- tucks upon them. Wo tiut thev mil slum! to tin posts. The Whig poity and the country can gain noth ing by yielding to tho factions personal warfare now being waged by tho majority in Congress, Wo are glad to bo assured thut tho President is as firm ns rock. It is what the country expects and wishes. members of Congress wo would say a won), and that Don't be too anxious lo take caro of tho President and Cabinet. Look a little to your own busine Your sosaiou, so fur, has been not only useless, but re liculous mid disreputable. U stands very low lit pi lie estimation. Aud if we arc not greatly mistaken, Gen, Taylor and his Cabinet stand much better with the country than you do. Wo would ltko to be re- sjiectful, but with due deference, you will permit us to say that the common opinion is, that the country never had such a miserable Congress before." owu through, but was recovered by vMOL'lit him bv the heels na In lVlf. This misfortune caused the tire to get too strong for them to replace tho natch, tie (the carpenter) tells he did not leave there until he had examined the ieds of l he deck passengers, supposing, through fright, ome might have left their children ; out found none, ,nd the next thing for him wus to got ashore, which he lid by getting lo the hurricane deck and coming down the derrick and spar, losing tools, ha'gago and all. After all was saved that could be saved ; we then proceeded to assist iu making the passengers as comforta ble as circumstances would admit. 1 had tires built a-long the shore, the houses beiug occupied by the wouii- led. 1 cannot close without expressing a deep souse of gratitude towards my officer and crow, who, to a mail, stood to his post from beginning to end. Nearly nil ot the above stuiemeuu tell under my observation and are correct. One question is frequently asked, and that is, how is that all the officers and crew were saved, which is mlv answered. The accident occurred at li!o clock at which timo a change of watch takes placo. Tho! not on watch were iu the act ol getting up, being just ailed; consequently, wo bad tho assistance ot all in lace ol halt the crow, to aid in rendering assistance. return my sincere tnauKs to me several steam boats. viz: Visitor. Hermann, Diadem, Citizen, and John Adams, for their kindness and liberality extended to our passengers and crew. D. S. JAMES, Captain, l"e There is a move making iu the Massachusetts Legislature which mav result in a commutation of Wtdister's miniahmmit. Hv the new act. if missed. persons under sentence of ifoath are placed in the State rnson lor one year. The Bitter-Eudcrs, and their a'luudcr- lng of the Nation's Treasury There uppears to be considerable inquiry into the tho workings of Locofocoism for some time past about the Treasury ut Washington. Almost every day brings light some deep laid ami success I ul plot for plunder ing the cash. The instincts of the party uro just as strong uow as in the days of S wart w out and Boyd and 'i co aud Hams, or of Barney and Yontz and Mulrine und others m Ohio. We have seen no case that shows the true character of the Ditter-Euders more completely than the one described below, by tho Wuchiiigtoii CorresKndent of the Philadelphia North American. We commend the case to the consideration of those virtuous souls who havo had surh spasms over the Galphin claim aud oth ers of the kind. The Union that pink of honest propriety ! has been engaged for a fortnight iu assuiliug the Cubinet, upon a piesllou oi luci, which ia uow uuuer itivesugaiiou oe ore a Committee of Congress, ami hns endeavored, bv base insinuation, to create prejudicial impressions on the nublic mind as to the merits or the chum and the parties concerned in its allowance. 1 shall dot stop to discuss too gross mid mteiitiun! InjiialM of rock a course, or to waste words upon a print, which is so sensible to every obligation ol duty, or honor, nnd lecency. But since the Union has conveniently, and Tho Postmaster at Springfield. Ohio, has heen detect ed by the secret mail-agent, Matthews, in emhexvliug money from letters passing through the office. The frequency of official peculations uudor iho Taylor dy nasiy muni no excci-timii ""'j'k i" un, i ir ti lull 'II and other ' high-minded" gentlemen of thai incorruptible party. Well, it must. Iiotton Pint, l"p" Wo clip tho above paragraph from the Washington Union ol the 'ijth inst., which soeuis to bo going the rounds of Iho bitter-end press. We presume our worthy Locofoco friend, Mr, McLaughlin, tho Postmaster at Springfield, will not thank his political friends fur their efforts to ejoct him from an office, worth $1,000 per year, hy flt accusations, merely to 1 gratify their spite against the presout Administration. It proves conclusively, at any rate, that the bitter end Ureudful Mono. Destruction of Property and Lou of Life I -Three Steam boats injured: : A Jtat-ooat sunk ana thrtt persons arownca : ! ! Between throe and fouroVlock, yesterday afternoon, storm broke in uikii us from the south-west, accom panied by wind, thunder aud lightning, and following the line of tho river, swept along the lower level of the city with fearful virulence, creating the utmost con sternation, and doing serious damage : Boats were forced from their moorings, cliimme were blown down from their places, and the roofs of several houses were torn off, aud the entire extent of hun ace wo were unable to ascortaiu, at alato hour last night, but we apprehend disastrous news iroin points, within the ran no of the storm. Ibe cliimnics ot tho steamer Ulipper (So. t, lying nt ho wharf, woro blown down, aud a portion of tho pi lot house of the G. W. Kendnll was blown off. The :abins of the steamers Gen. Washington and Beacon, at tho ship yards above, were shattered almost to iiieces, and much other damage was done to tlio steam mats both at the lauding and points above. 1 he storm was so sudden, that a small girl, living on Frout street, near Ludlow, was struck by the post of an awning, which was blown down, and immediately killed. A flat-boat, ns we learn by Mr. Robert Lindsay, sunk near the foot of Four-Mile Bar. and three iiertom were drowned. 1 wo ot them from near lieimotit, Ky., named Drysou, were twiu brothers, and on the wuy to New Orleans on their first adveuturo iu busi ness. Ueorge Cummins, an aged man, perished, ami Mr. Lindsay, our informant, saved himself by swim ming to shore. In the upHr part of the city tho effects of the storm were nut so severe, it seemed io conune useii, in h lestructivo course, to tho valley. Cm. Dispatch-General Taylor. Of General Taylor, our truly straight-forward 1'resi- lent, tho Stanton spectator says, it may be predicated that hu does nil things sensibly, ho speaks sensibl acts sensibly, lights sensibly, and administers the go1 'innioiit soiiHiblv. lie is precisely one ol those me if whom it can be said, tho more you know of him, tho more you like mm and the more you ronmio hun. Without by-ends in view ol by-ways ol rend ing them, he presents a imrfect contrast to tho trail m politician or the political partisan, utisciiooieii in pa tv tactics, ho takes nositiou for tho Cuuntry unnwt by demagogues aud factionists, ho ' respectfully di dines" to surrender principles he deems essential I the peace, safety, and genera I welfare of the country. Ho was early tried in the field anil never found want m if, closing his in unary career in a Dime oi gtory. n was tried as soon as seated iu the Presidential chaii by difficult and delicate questions with foreign ii ers ; tried by an opposing party press, opening upon mill won lis nrutiery ui aiun-r im iivmnmi, as was never directed against any honest man ill tl ruuntrv. executing Henrv CluV. who stands forth un hurt aud uuscuthed, " head and shoulders " above most men. the living monument of the imiKitency of sue assaults, (ten. Taylor has been fuither tried in a recent struggle between the South and the North upon questions of solemn import, now, it is hupt-d, " fair wav of satisfactory adjustment, but presenting at one timo a crisis fearful in the extreme. No President of theso United Stales has ever met such an amount ot se-.i.L... i,. a.t abort a oeiiiHl. and involving matters of such momentous importance, both foreign and do mestic t nnd General Tavlor nns met mom as innu and as a patriot, capable of discerning the right, and firm in maintaining it. .... Tho whig partv, hrniiiiuuacumeu.iu pimuipu ., mm- oiiwriitulato itself. the President, uud Iho country. niton the Haltering prospects of all concerned. Xenia Torch Light. excellent article. surprisingly to many ol its It lends, ntiectod so much integrity, there n a utuo transaction involving the loo ting ot some eigiu or more inousaiiu dollars, with which tho public, may as well be entertained, until the Committee on the "Galphin claim" are prepared ro re- rt. To appreciate the case about to be presented, and understand the relation oi mo parties implicated, it must be known at tho outset, that tho proprietors of the Union, with a praiseworthy regurd lor tho Ion and fishes, succeeded in obtaining the contract for the :oiigresstona) printing, by putting turwurd a subordi nate in their office, who was made to underbid the ruinous rales ol the preceding contracts, by some 10 or Ut percent. Of course this stratagem secured the ill. and it rumor uo true, mr. niicme aim nir. u iviv his fidus Achates chairman of tlio committee of Wavs anil Means, became ttie bondsmen for work to bo executed iu aud for the benefit of tho Union estab- ishment. I shall not ch.irgo thut tins underbiddb a trick was plauned with a view ol potting possession of the printing and then exacting from a political major ity whatever measure ol remuneration could be obtained; but enndor compels mo to say, it has a remarkable squinting that wny; aud this inference is justified by the management through which the samo concern contrived to pocket tome $10,000, when thoy had a tacked jury in Hie nouso oi nenreaeniauves. uui the motive is not the matter to which I deiro to in- ite public attention. It is a moro serious and estab lished affair. During the Inst session ol Congress a resolution was passed by tho Senate, authorizing the publication of 10,000 copies ol me decision! oi uie oupreme court in the Passenger Cases, as they are inmiharly called. The printing was given to the contractors under the BW. The copies were iieuvercu, aim uio pamptllel rs-Tli. lotinater G. iieral has concluded an ar- ninimmtMit bv which the mails between Boston and Nhw York will he conveyed by Railroad. The time between the two cities will be about 74 hours, covered one hundred and eighty-one pages. Accord ing to the contract prices, the cost ot this wot k, it my in term nt ion is correct, ought to havo been about $1,- AOO, aud according tn the ordinary charges, it might have varied Irom y,500 to 4,000 dollars, as conscience nr nrinrioln or usage might suggest. The Unum concern rcnuercu a oiu ior pruning mis namohiet. in uie neigiiDoruoou oi jerry inousana aoi- lar! 1 1 or about the sum which was expended for the printing of the Senate during the whole session, i he pretext upou which that extortionate, enormous, and unprecedented charge originated, was this the law designates several classes oi pruning wiin nxeu prices, mid one class caiieu " nuacuunncruus, wiuioui a price. Poor " miscellaneous " was pounced upon to curry the hnri-cominirs of these disinterested patriots ; aud si tho contingent fund of the Senate was to stand the de pletion, like Doctor sangrauos, mey ueiermiuetl io nil-minister the lancet without compituctiou. All this turned up during tho recess of Congress, and just at the particular lime when the Union was exhausting its virtuous indignation ugaiust the alleged corrupt wnt of the party iu power. Tim ixce cm anil menionoua omcer. wm nan hai L-o of tho Senatorial money bags, rebelled at tho bill oi" fortv thousand dollars for a mmphlot of llll pages, lie had beard claims uciore iu uts day, oui oi quite SO iiMHiew una, ur oi aucii rvuiariitinie nro nor nous. Mr. root that worthy man ot all work, fmin hutching a Convention at Nashville, down to in ducting an editor into the Unum, ns ho did Mr. Burke was on hand and employed bis Senatorial skill in be half ot this meritorious demand. Hut the treasury Cerlierus resisted; aud finally a compromise Mr. Footo is great on compromises was patched up, hy which the claim was referred to a venerable patriot, whose experience in the "art preservative ol nrts, whose benevolent character. Rnd whose uuselhsh na ture, were considered as pre-eminent qualifications for his derision on a uucatton involving nil his pockets, to gether with those of his partner. A guutU-imiu from Virginia, "the mother of States and statesmen t" a ffeiillomnn who beloiiifi d to the 11 elite ul the Democ isi'v a eei i tie in nil who is well ' known in Rich momi ;" a gentleman who has been cl in met or t ed ns tho "Nestor ol the American press" 1 nomas itiicnie, Esquire, editor. was seiocieu as reieree. in took the csin into consideration. He consulted the an thorities, i. e. his pot kets ; he counted the chain ea of nn "extra;" he took liurko by the button ami un- fiM- .Iwa lht thi " t'orlv thiilisnild Would liol Stand tiro, il some villanous vung punned nis uisu; mm nu n in that spirit ol concession and iinigiianimiiy wh ivbi.-h lm it now ntllvinu the LMiod nnd truo men of ai parties, he deducted twenty-seven thousand from th amount, marched uo to the Trensiiry with his bi streaming like a pennant, bearing this glorious inscitp lion, "retrenchment III puoiio expenses fu.juu vniy, fobbed his vellow boys and returned to the temple t " nomocracy, t coiigrauuiiw me itouuui mi uiu (jn-nt nets ul his country. Now 1 maintain that that was not a bad day's work and without being much ol a tnukee, 1 can catiuuii ilii. timhta. Di duct the UoligroBSloual price n oui u urii n received, mid no cleared a C eioi nr.u imnmauu Lv tho op-ration. Deduct the moro liberal allowance nnd bo cleared something like trim' thousand on one httie. drttr HU lo oh ot IKl pnges, no uuu, aim oau nriiitina. at that. Mr. Ritchie is a man of sense, an muintr intra th art of nrilililig. He proved It by hi verdict in tliis case, "and by his refusal tn degrade the craft of which be is an honorable member, uy any mg Correspondence of the Journal. Collins splendid new Steamer Atlantic, Iu departure Death ol'a Fireman-Arrival from t hugres-Flva N learners ai Panama-A Nwedltli Skip New Vork PostmaNter-Em I K ration to CaJiondaand iu effects upon business, dVc Tho American mail stourner sailed to-dav. at noon. for Liverpool. She has on board about one hundred and twenty passengers and a fair cargo of merchandise. Tho price lor passage is ten duliurs higher than that of the Cuimrd line, and, this considered, the amount ot patron u go which sho has received on this her first voyage speaks well for tho estimation iu which she is held, The Atlantic left her dock precisely at 12 o'clock, M. bvery pier Irom Canal street to tho Battary was more or less crowded with spectators who hud assembled to see her take h r departure and bid her God-speed to her destination. Sho moved majestically through the rtortn-river and down tho buy, presenting us hiiu opiecf of naval architecture as we have ever witnessed. The cost of this steamer has been not far from I jOO.ODO. We will now await, with no little iuterest, to uicertnin the timo which she will employ in reaching England. Hor machinery being new and untried, the present voyage cannot bo expected to bo as favorable in point of speed, ns she is capable of making. AU tho biigine-houses, in our city, are dressed in mourning, in consequence of the untimely end of a uiemborof engine company No. U. who wusnccidental- ty killed, at the fire in Front street on Thm sduy evening lust. While in the discharge of his duty, on Iho roof if uti udjuiiiing building which wus four storks high, he foil through the scuttle aud through the hatchways which were immediately below, to tho first floor. He was taken up iusensibleuiid expired shortly alter. His funeral is to take place to-munow, und will be attended by tho whole fire department, iho association of ex- mipt firemen, und also by iho members of our com mon council, in their ofhciul capacity. The corouer's jury, iu rendering a verdict, in this case, expressed the pinion that measures should be adopted to compel oc cupant, of stores to havo the hatch ways always prop erly covered over to prevent similar accidents in future. At present, there is scarcely a store iu our city, of mag. titude, which bus those guarded on tho upper floors. From this cause, many accidents of the above nature t have heretofore occurred, ami, we cannot doubt, that we will hear of others, from time to time, until such protective means shall bo employed, as thosesuggested. Yesterday we had the artivnl here of the steamers Crescent City and Philadelphia from Chigrcs. Noth ing later wus received, however, from California. At Panama, when these packets arrived, there was uo less tliun five steamers bound for Sail Francisco, besides several sailing vessels. Ample opportunity appears, therefore, to be furnished uow, for reaching the El-Do rado, from the former placo. Some good vuyugei have been made, by sailing vessels, between Panama and San Francisco, which has resulted iu bringing this mode of conveyance quite in favor, to the neglect somewhat of the steamers. Tlio trip being made, by the former, in from forty to fifty days, and tho rates of fare, being much reduced, many of the adventurers are iu-duced to givo them the preference. The Swedish sloop-of-wnr Njardeu, is now in our port, having arrived here a day or two ago from a cruise iu thu West Indies. A snlute of twenty-one guns was yesterday fired from Governor's Island, in honor of her visit to our harbor, which she returned. She curries eighteen guns and her crew is composed of one hundred nnd fifty-uiue men. She will probably remain hero several days, by which an opportunity will be offered to her officers, for inspecting the ob- objects of interest in our metropolis. Wc have advices Irom Washington that the Senate has confirmed tho nomination of J. V. Brady, our present Poat-mnstcr, appointed by General Taylor. This was expected by all. A more popular mail, than the present incumbent, has never filled the office. Mr. Brady is not one of these " stand still " men, who move iu the footsteps of their predecessors, nnd ad hero strictly to the plans pursued hy them, notwithstanding the changes which may bo demanded to keep pace with the increase of business, which is given birth to, by an advancing ago. He is ever on tho alert to expedite the affairs of his department. Sinco ho has held the office, moro accommodations have been mado for the benefit of the public thm during the ten years previ ously. He is of tho kind of men who should bo espe cially selected for offices of this chnructer. Our busi ness commuuity are ready to acknowledge his seal to benefit their interests. Exchange on England is advancing, the rate for good bills being now from 109 to UO. It may therefore be that shortly specie will be exported to some extent. Business does not yet assume the degree of activity hich wus cxtiected. It is tho general impression that the immense emigration lo California from the West is exorcising a deleterious influence ou our trade this sea- Money is being diverted from its usual channel, aud instead of finding its way hither lor tho purchase goads, is being expended m the places bordering on the extreme West, for outfits, or being carried, tu small sums, by tho ndvonturers, to the shores of the Pacific, These sums respectively considered are of no great moment, but taken in the aggregate, they are extreme- large. It is certainty a fact, that notwithstanding tho frequent receipts of large sums of gold dust, California has not yot, by any means, returned to us a fourth part of tlio money which it has tnken from us. From here steamers are sailing al tho rate of two or three weekly f r Chagres. Recently the average nunv r of passengers carried on each trip cannot be lew than throe hundred. Now of these we cannot suppose mt any set out with loss thin one thousand dollars, in cash, while thoso starting with speculative idens sre possessed, in many instances, of fifty times thit amount Taking the first figure, however, and, in a very quiet and unostentatious way, wo bell dd $3 00. 00 J with drawn from circulation here, with the departure of oach separate band of adventurers, by every Clmgres steamer. Looking at the matter iu ihis light we can speedily discover that it needs hrga returns to keep puce with our disbursements. And, in addition, pil ing fJ.'iO to the credit of each man who Is starting on tho overland route for Culilormn, w hen estimating the numbers who are omigrnthig thus, an idea oan be for-med of the wealth which is being taken from our country to bo transferred to the El Dorado of the Pacific. Will it not rrouiro heavy receipts ol gold dust yet, to compensate for the drain of specie which is being made upon usT Yours truly, Soil I ii (Hit. The Republic concludes an article noticing the com ments of tho Union upou the late treaty with Nicara gua with iltc following. It is a capital hit at the de termined obstinacy oi mo union w uuy aci oi a mi in-istratton t The Union concludes its article with these words, ,t in double caps: "wi havk sr.r..t sold m thi British." The Union may well excintin oi useii in that Innguage. It will bo believed. Wodonotiut. mate tint tho t'nia wus sold for a con-ti .fenttiou m the sense of lucre; and wo doubt if it would lotch much in any miction. But its panions sen upon an nrca- snma. its inured ot rresnM-n i n the Administration was in n controversy withM I out-sin, the IVm inU'lit wi II have aid of itself, " We nre sold to the French." Uunii the Key eon-co. emr u was "sold lo Iho BpiiuMi.' In mo manor ui m unship it was " sold to tho uuun. in cumera times it weitutjii told useii m I" "vinv, 4i n-ies aloud, "We nre s dd " " untisiiv mm me next sale it makes of itself will bo the sale which ai nice inado by Dr. Faustus. nr Tho American mail steamer Atlantic If ft New York for Liverpool, on Saturday lust. This steamer is intended as a model of perfection, in the present stile ot the arts and sciences in bio nnboat building. 1 he cost of construction was nearly (iU0,00l). The rlmrge for passage is ten dollars higher thuiuhe English steam-ers, aud iu arraiigenieuts.ducoiaiionsniidconveuienct 1 of all kinds, surpasses any vessel unit.

VOLUME XL. COLUMBUS, OHIO, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1850. NUMBER 36. PUBMHIIKD EVERY TUESDAY MORNINO, II V KtiOTT & UAHt'OM. OFFICE IOOTU-KAST COSNES OF HIUH ST. AND Sl'UA ALLEY. TKItMrt Invariably tn mlvnurr. Wwk y per win urn In Columlma '.! 00 Oul of tlin eity ; by mail, inln 1 Tiki una ot lour unit upu nnia 1 2.r Tin nb of ten and upwards, to one address 1 00 Daily, Aaion 8 Trl-WiMily, .lo 1 Weekly do., itiifl To cluhs of bv mid upwards 40 Tlio Journal Is hIik) puldilii-d Dully mid Tri-Weekly during the year ; Diiily p'T annum, by mail, (5 ; Tri Wwkly, $1. Kates of AdveriUlnK Weekly Paper. One square, 10 line or lenj, inw itHcrtiou 4V) SO 11 " 11 each additional 11 0 '--' " " " 1 muntli 1 " " " 8 " s an " " 3 " a on rt 5 IK) " " 12 " S W " " chanjrable monthly, perannum 30 IM) " " wi-emy " v'i Stnndftiff card, onn r)unri or liss, ' 8 IK l 4 coluiiin,vhnnffi;allnqunrlfrly," " U!i bo " " " (Mi (hi 1 " " UK) 00 Other cases not provided for, chargeable in conformity with tin.' atiovn rnti'f, All Icadi'dadrprtincmcnta tobochnrgednot 1pm than doubln tho above rates, nnd mrRfiimt aa If solid. Advertisement on the inniilc exclusively, to w churgml at the rate oi iai per cent, in auviuire on too nnoro rate. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 2!), IBM). Locofo- Co n gross I o mil InveMiKiitiois co Frauds. Tho Locofoco members of Congress seem to have been seized of lute with an itching to investigate the transactions of tho executive offices of tho government. Having themselves hud power for twenty years, they nilurally feel the incompctcunv of Whig to discharge public duties. For omvelvos and in thii wo speak fur ourselves only we Imvo no objection to investigations by Congressional committees. If Whig officers have been unlaitlifnt we ahull feel just as much rejoiced ut their exposure as if they were Locofocos. Wo have noticed already the resolution appointing u committee to overhaul the Department of the Into rior, to seo if any money litis been wrongfully paid out by order of Thomas Ewing to ascertain whether suid Thomas Ewing has usurped power, and to find out who, if any body, in the name Department, write letter or editoriuls for Whig pipers, what are llioir salaries, and all about it. Tho inquiry in regard to the writing for newspapers strikes us an rattier novel. It bring the subject up fur discussion in a view in which wo have nut seen it nan-died, to wit : Is it wrong for persons in ollico to write letters fur publication? If so, then Locofocoism is deeply guilty. Lot us see: The lute biographer of General Cass was a clerk in office at Wushingion. His name was D. F. Brown. He has since been ur routed for forgery and fraud on the treasury. Hu wrote two lives of General Cass one for tho North, and tho other fur tho South. He was for a time General Cans' right hand man. Auotherclcrk uudor Mr. Folk win Douglass Wullach. He wrote letters ugainst General Taylor, very bitter and abusive so much so that Thomas Ritchey rowar- ' dfd him with a gold pencil heavy case must huvo coMt more than the nuuuiil subsciiptiou price of the Union. Wullarli, if we mi t take not, aitouded one entire session of the House of Representatives white in office making u compromise witii his cflieiul duties. We mention only these two instances. Oilier Loco foco clerks wrote for papers. All who hud brains to write, if we nre to believe competent witnesses, wrote. Those who were good at speaking went out into Pennsylvania and Maryluud and urged General Cass' election, tolling monstrous lies to the people every where. Of such was H. F. Drown. Others in office attending nightly Loeofoco club meetings, reported Whig incumbents fur execution and subscribed mouey as they were required. The Commissioner of Patents, Mr. E. llnrko, uow editor of the Union, while in office under Polk, wrote a series of what he called political papers, ami signed the in " Iiundlccund," He has ever since been laboring under a strange hallucination that he is tho American Edmund Burke a copy of tho great English slates-man. As well might a grasshopper imagine himself an elephant. Mr. Uuehanaii, while Secretary of State, K it his post and went into Pennsylvania, making political speeches. How many letters he wrote for publication does nut appear. Wo are inclined to believe they wnro m:tiiy. Commissioner Edwards, of the Pension office a miserable demagogue had two Locofoco clerks under him, who wore for some time engaged iu prosecuting claims against the government. One was a pet of Buchanan's, and the other of Marty, and Commissioner Edwards dared not turn them out. On tho 4th of March, 184!i, when General Taylor camo into power, the Commissioner, to save his own bacon, made them walk the plank I Mr. Samuel Medury, editor of the Ohio Statesman, was Postmaster in this city uiulcr Mr- Polk, and so far as we know was esteemed all (he better lor editing a paper tho like of which for low utid filthy black- L'tiardisui was never sei-n in this country Hut, in and out uf Washington, their name U legion. From the Union down lo the village sheet, the Locofoco press was reeking throughout Polk's Administration, and has been sitice, with falsehoods and 'hin ders from tho horde of Locofoco ullice holders. The whole country knows this is no. Hut this is not all. Mr. Detihy, tho Locofoco Navy Aaent at Franco, abstracts from its lawful use frl.VJ,- 000 of the public money, nnd engages in a apeeulntioi lledeltuilis to that amount, and Mr. Ritchie at on( Hies to his rencae cays ho knows Mr. Dt-uby well- that ho belongs to tho elite that is, the pink of the disiiiiiiuitlti'd Dei uoc rait of Richmond. Then comes Mr. Scott with Ten Thousand gone can't pay up tn tho Treasury. Collins, of Cincinnati, is the next mar lyr. His was no small sum. Mr. Kly Moore, of New Vork, in the coolest manner mhhiMc puts it out uf his imwer to pay the Government some t '0,000 of 1 licit own money. Mindly, Mr. Wet more, n disbursing agent of tho Polk Administration runs his ami into Uu 1 cle Sam's pocket and makes otf with one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars, a part of which he finally Hgni?; to fork over on conditions. Col. Weller, of the Mexican Hound. try Communion, one of the lut a-pointiueiila of tho last AdmiuiMnitiou, manages to hugger-mugger nway eleven thousand dollars which he don't choose to account for. Whether he bought goods with it uud transported litem at tho expense of the Government for private spallation, or allowed others to do so, or wasted the money oven in a less reputable way, we shall not stop now lo inquire. The mouoy is gone. We mtjiht mention a lot of snrill cases six hundred and odd ilollar defaulters up to tivoorsii thousand but no matter for the proncut. The Locofocos in Congress havo never once thought of investigating any of these cases, or proposed to inquire into the conduct of any of tho Individuals which we Imvo named atmvo. We propose that they at nn o do so, ami we hope the subject will not be passed over by the Whigs in the House. For Mr. Ewing wo havo no fears. Ho has nlways beeu able to take caro of himself, and wo think he is good for twenty or thirty such committees ns Mr. Richardson's renolution creates. If there are any Whigs in office in Washington who have seen lit to express tin tr views through the press in an independent nnd becoming maimer, wo trust they will not permit themselves to be moved by any Loco foco committee of Inquiry. If tho holding of an otiti c destroys the freedom of thought and its just, lcgiii iiiato expression, we ran only advise our Whig friendi thus situated, lo resign at once. Wc can1 not whether the position is high or low. What say onr brethren of the press t paragraph, Wo nre not among thus who4deuy Con gress the constitutional powers to form governments tor territories in their embryo state, &o, yet wo must insist on tho injustice of that portion of the Statesman's article which attempts to saddle the delay of the ad mission of California on the Whigs, while the Locofocos have a mnjority iu each branch of Congress and refuse to act according to tho recommendation of the President's message nt the oponing of the session. The fact is, Southern Locofocoism hud resolved to make up an itittc at homo with the Administration on this question, and charged President Taylor, as did Mr. Inge of Alabama, with an eflbrt to smuggle Califomiu into the Union as a free State. Mr. Clay at the first of tho session ollered a series of resolutions, and made a speech iu favor of tho admission of California as a tepa-rafe measure, which was denounced everywhere by Southern Locofocos as surrendering everything practi cally to the North. If Northern Locofocoism had stood up to his position, and not played second fiddle to its SmithiTU allies on exactly opposite pretences, California would have been admitted long ago; but Mr. Clay probably got tired at last of standing a fire from both sides without any thanks, and has fallen back on the wishes of bis slaveltolding constituency. The test voto in the Senate published in our paper of tho 25th iiist., shows (counting absentees) n majority of Whigs tnlavorol admitting California in aieparate bill, and two fkirdi of tho Locofocos opjtosed to it, which is a satisfactory answer to the Statesman's query, why Cat toriiia is not admitted T His own parly are REspomi- di.e, because tho Administration has no majority iu Congress to carry out its recommendations, The peo- pie loo will recollect this tact nt the noils. , What is tho position uf parties at the South on the admission of California, as a State? The Whig Senate of Tennessee, nt its lust session, passed resolutions m favor of admitting California, which tho Locofoco Mouse rejected, and wanted to appoint dolegates to the disunion Nashville Convention. To test, then, the sincerity of tho Statesman in abandoning tho and- Wettern ground taken by Gen. Cass, in delaying the admission of California on the pretext that tho South will stave it off perpetually in tho House by calling tho yeas and nays, wo want to know if it wilt join us in calling upon the press every, whero to urge tho Houso of Representatives to pass the California hill forthwith, and send it to the Senate, so that the Compromise committee will no longer have any pretext to mix the subject with any other ques tion r It is tune something was done. Tho rules must be clumped, if necessary, to prevent a faetiom minority from impeding legislation. A deep feeling against cowering under threats is fast taking hold of the public mind. Lot our Representatives; bo firm, a free press will sustain them, and denounce traitors, while such men ns Bright, Dickinson and Sturgeon, whoso terms all expiro this your, will bj held to a severe uc tint by their cotntitueuts. Ho, then, for a united Western movement ol au. parties to push California through the Houso of Representatives, before tho North and tho South bargain us away in tho shambles for tho Presidency. Let tho West curry this point, ana tueti as a conservative third power, slio may arbi trate with dignity ou the questions iu dispute about ilavery. Indiana must mark her recreant Senator, if she hopes for the sympathy of New York and Penn-svlvatiia iu a strugglo emphatically Western, iu which ic swelling voice of the great valley of Mississippi may already be heard in the murmurs of the Press from Cincinnati to New Orleans against the wretched policy of Congress toward our young sister of tho Pacific. Wo might multiply extracts to prove the state of public feeling, but at present we wilt only refer to tho article ot the Statesman, which gives promise by the way tlmt ou this question, for once, we can pull together in the support of Denton and tho Administra tion. 'I' llC MltUlllUII Oil t'lllaTol'llill. Wo congratulate our neighbour fur his article on this question Thursday evening, and that he has nt length come to the conclusion lo join iu, what ho termed a few days ago, the " Ewing movement." Well, wo are glad that the "Cilicn" has so much of (ho western man about him that he cannot stand ovory tiling Cass does, hut comes up manfully to lite support of President Taylor's recommendation to admit California as a State orAmA, ami wo thiuk it fortuuato, perhaps, that our nditorial ou this subject, which was prepared last Monday, was delayed by the proas of other matter un til the Stati'stnau had committed tlselt on the nAside for wo fear that its perusal might have induced our neighbor to take the contrary, ou the favorite theory of his party which defines " Done h-racy to bo, opposition to whatever the vi lugs advocate. ' However, our sat isfaction is so great in having the aid of tho organ of Ohio Locolocotsra In an etlort to compel Cass, Drijjit, and Whitcnmb to voto for tho vnconditional admission of California as their western constituents demand, Falsehood Exposed. 1 The Statesman says that the Whigs pledged General Taylor us friendly to tho proviso, and that ho would use his official intluence to introduce it into our Mexican territories. We wilt not characterize this atrocious calumny as it deserves. We venture tho assertion that it can produce no respectable paper or respectable speaker iu the Union that has ever done any such thing. Tho ed itor of that sheet knows as well as he knows he exists j tint ho was penning a falsehood when he wrote it. The position tnken by tho Whigs was tins. Gen. Cass, in his Nicholson letter, declared the proviso un- constitution;!!. Ho maintained that Congress had no power to pass any such law. Gen. Taylor declared that, on nil questions which had been settled by the uniform acts of tho Government and acquiesced iu by the American people, ho would not interpose the veto mwer. bvery body knows that tho proviso has boon pontedly recognized by tho Government. President Polk signed the Oregon bill with tho proviso iu it. The Whigs argued that Cass would veto the proviso bo- ause he hid in substance said so in the Nicholson let-! ter; but that Taylor had iu substance, utid clearly by implication said, that if Congress adopted the proviso he would approve it. This was the argument. It was legitimate. It clearly made Taylor the preferablo can didate for proviso men. So argued the Whigs. So they atill argue. Their position has just as much force to-day as it had two years ago. Wc havo seen nothing to weaken it. Wo havo never said or supjxisod that Taylor would it so his official uifiuenco in favor of it. Hut wo think equally certain that ho will not use executive iulliieiico and the veto againtt it. We chal lenge the Stiiiestmiu to produce any other argument from lugs d Ohio. And if bitter enders wish to try tho experiment, let them adopt the proviso in Con- gross, and wo shall see whether tho President will ve to the bill. Dare they do it T Wo invito the test A lloH'lc t use. The 0trr-rsuafcrf candidate for the Convention from franklin cn., who does up tho editorials of the "Ori- tlammo " of Ohio Democracy, ha been euuniied for six month in the hopeless tuak of persuading himself that the Journal is the special organ of the Secretary of the Interior; and inhisSatunlay's paper ho tloundors through several nark look in l columns to prove stint our suiMMirl of tho hitminii4iratioti is all designed to advance thi: end! Well, this i' an argument. Hut wo had not hoped for the assistance of tho Statesman quite so soon to help us out. Wo know tho Editor's proclivity to keep on tho sido of the majority if he knew when that was to bo, but wo find him on hand earlier than we expected. Tho logic of tho thing is, however, the strongest part of the case! We support tho Administration plan of limtting California in preference to that or Messrs, Footo, Cass, Whitcomb, Dickinson, Clay, &o. Wo say California ought to be admitted without carrying the load of Texas boundary, slave catching, &c., &c. Th Statesman gets its eyes open, and, though disliking to w the lend oi tho Journal nnd tho Administration, linnlly comes out with an article giving his full ai ion to tho Administration, and tho doctrines of tho Journal on this topic, nnd deliberately denounces and throws overboard its leaders of 18 18, Cass A. Co. Si far, all right. But tho next day the Editor makes tho astounding discovery that all our support of the Ad ministration is a rM to advance the claims of Ewing for the Presidency! Will this astute logician be so kind as to inform his friends wherein this support of th Administration tends to elevate Ewing any more than it does Taylor, or Meredith, or Coilainer, or Clayton, or any other member of tho Cabinet f And while ho is carrying out tho argument, and framing this syll giitiic battering-ram, will he tell us which member the Cabinet Ac is bought up to support for the Pros) deiicy f If the argument is good for any thing it provi him part kept eriminu, with the Journal ! If this pateerfnl effort does not convince the people that tho Journal is tho " Ewing organ," then it may safely be given up as a hopeless cane. Washington Correspondence. Washington, April 24. The Compromise committee have had but one meeting, and will not enter upon the consideration of the matters presented to it until ufter the return of the Senatorial delegation which accompanied tho remains of Mr. Culhoua to Charleston. But nobody appears to be in the least suspend as to what will be the result of the committee's labors, and therefore but little solicitude is felt ou account of the delay. It will not accomplish much iu the way of adjusting difficulties ; at least this seems to bo the general impression ; nor will any material progress be made in tho matter until personal interests are mado to givo way to sound judgment and common sense. Every thing seemed clear and auspicious while the Whigs manifested a disposi tion to adopt the safe and emmently practical sugges tions embodied iu the President's special message ; and it is tho opinion of our soundest men that but little can bo hoped for until there is a return to those suggos tions. At one timo it was known that there was a de cided majority in both Houses iu favor of tho admission of California as a separate and independent measure.; but an extraordinary exercise of parliamentary tactics hat distracted and divided that majority, and involved tho result in doubt and obscurity. If it shall appear at an early day, as it is to be hoped itinay, that no " omnibus bill " can command tho approval of the House, there will assuredly boa return of light, bring ing to tho view the prospect of tho udmistinn of California in tho only way she can bo admitted, in a sepa rate bill. That boiug accomplished, attention can bo directed lo suitable legislation fur tho Territories. If the proper course can be hit upon lor thein, a course upon which both Houses can agree, the people will be satisfied; and if not, then, as u necessary consequence, those territories will remain as they are until the people thereof can determine for themselves, by the adoption of orgauic regulations, tho nature of their domestic institutions, and every body will readily acquiesce. With this view of utlairs I shall watch with much interest tho action of the Houso on Mr. Doty's bill, which will very soon bo again brought forward. I am glad to be able to announce tlmt tho compact negociatod by Sir Ilonry Dulwer and Mr. Cl'iytou in regard to the Nicarauga perplexities has been sent to the Senate and is now before that body for its consideration. It is understood that its terms will prove eminently satisfactory to the American people, as it secures to us all tho rights we havo cluiuied and stipulates for a total abandonment ou tho part of Groat Britain of all her pretensions to sovereignty in that country. When the full meauro of embarrassment is known, which encompassed the negociution, iu consequence of the oxt inordinary blunders of tho last Administration, it will be seen that Mr. Clayton has achieved a diplomatic triumph of which ho and the entire American peoplo may well ho proud. It is understood that tho Gal phi u committee hns nearly closed its labors; and we havo a right to infer from the givings out ou the part of certain individuals, that tho upshot wilt bo a comploto vindication of Sec- rotary Crawford from tho slightest suspicion of dishonorable conduct. The report, however, will bo so voluminous that few will over read it; and it is not doubted that an unscrupulous pat tizan press will labor desperately to misrepresent and distort it to the dis paragement of Mr. Crawford. Wo shall see how suc- cesssfulsuch an effort will bo. The bitter-enders of the Houso huvo managed to raiso a special committee, on pretexts the most flimsy and unwarrantable, to investigate the conduct of Secretary Ewing, in the allowance of certain claims gainst his Department, and iu tho appointment of rks in certain Bureaus ot lits Department. There not the slightest ground in the world for the accusa tions which havo been brought against him, and it is manifest that tho solo object of instituting (he committee tpargere ambigna vocct to engender suspicion in minds of tho people towards that fearless and in corruptible statesman. It is a low and contemptible Locofoco trick, more properly b 'fitting the character f tho rough Domocracy of the Ohio Legislature than at of an opposition in Congress. Hut iu this partic ular the object sought will not ho gained. The whole attempt will, from tho very start, stand out in such ild relief in tho character of n monstrous outrauo as cover with etornal infamy tho few scoundrels who are guilty of its inception. Tho mode of raising the committee was altogether unprecedented, and was carried by the agency of a villanous fraud. Tho uniform mode of proceeding iu such cases is, first to call pon the Cabinet officer against whom complaint is mado, for an explanation; and if that prove insufficient or unsatisfactory, then institute a committee and proceed to the investigation. Hut iu this case, with- mt any direct ovuleuce whatever, with nothing save io lowest scandal of irresponsible loiter writers and ihamelesi press, a bill of indictment is presented by io grand inquest of the nation against otio of tho con stitutional advisers of the President. As was forcibly stud by tho Hun. A. II. Stephens, of Georgia, no and jury in any county in the United States would vo proceeded in such a matter towards even the owest member of its community. The prosecutor would have been required to produce some tangible evulonco. Neither .Mr. riwiug nor tit- melius in House have at any time objected to tho mostscrutiniing inquiry that hu can possibly bo subjected to i but they hud a right to ox poet that it would proceed in the usua way. They accordingly proposed, first to call upon Mr. Ewing for au explanation ; and let it bo re mem- bored that the leaders on tho Democratic sido of the Houso agreed to go for sin h a call il tho House would rat appoint the committee, it being understood that tho Secretary's explanation shou'd go to thocommitteo : uud immediately after tho committee was appointed, they whirled around and objected to tho call ! Now I verily beltevo that Whitman and Moiilort, ami ter would, each and all, have spurned such n trick with iireat contempt. The committee is also authorized ami directed to in drohow many persons holding office by appointment from Mr. Ewing nre correspondents for newspapers, Mr. Stanley proposed to extend this inquiry to the appointees of tho last as well as the present Administra tion; but the proposition was at onco objected to and ruled out of order ! It is notorious that, during the exisletteo of all the Locofoco Administrations, the De partments swarmed with men who woro continually neglecting their official dutiet tn order to give llioir attention more effectively to letter writing ami other parti- lan appliances; and every body knows that Burke, hile Commissioner of Patents, found tune to write tho Bnndlecundo letters and to attend to the duties n chairman of tho National Democratic Executive Com mittee. So, too, the illustrious Win. J. Brown, when 2d Assistant Postmaster General, and his very worth compatriot and namesake, B. F. Brown, wln n in the 2d Auditor's office, the scene uf his subsequent Jinan cial operations, found timo toporambulate all the conn- try round about for tho purpose ot addressing political meetings. These things were so common that tiioy oc casioned but little remark. And now, forsooth, it proposed to inquire, not wtiat officers neglect their du ties for narttxan purtHisos, but what ones have the bod audacity to avow a sentiment through the press, matter what tho time or season. I doubt not that ai member of tho presout Cabinet would tako very prom notice of official delinquency among his officers, what ever the pretext might hu; and I have ns little doul that there is tho slightest disposition to restrain the disfranchised residents of this District iu tho legitimate exercise of tho freedom of speech. Those Locoloco gentlemen who think otherwise, are, as I humbly con- ivo, very large fools. Gen Houston has returned in excellent health and spirits from his recent vim l tn Texas, and reports that his Stato is still tho sumo immense whole, just as though it hud not been shivered into livo several frag ments by Mr. W cbater's speech. TUE8DAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1850 The HU Loul Truuody The Ittonte- q ii toil h. The trial of tho brothers Moiitesquious is ended and tho jury have nut been able to agree. Tho jury stood as follows: For the acquittal of Gomtalvo (the eldi brother,) seven; for his conviction, five. For the ipiiltul of Raymond, eight; for his couvictiou, foui The trial excited great iuterest, and was conducted tho most orderly, decorous manner. For ourselvi we never doubled the insanity uf tho young Metic men. The total absence of any motive for such conduct, together with the fact that insanity is a hereditary com plaint iu their family, satisfied us iiHn this point. The HuiiKiirimiau We see by the papers that Ujhuzy, late Governor of Comoro, with his lady, two daughters and three sous, Major Borauyi, Captain Gakuis, Captain Ri menyi, uitd Captain Gousuthz, left New York on tho 1.1th instant for Iowa, to select limd for their settlement, and for such of their bravo compatriots as may join them, They have taken the right steps to become citizens of the great American republic. In a farewell address from Gov. Ujhazy, in the new York papers, he says : " lo these shores I was driven by tvranuv i to tin fields of the West I am now borne bv tho desire of winning from Mother Earth what is mj necessary to tho American Republic, a free and independent exist- eels there a single bosom iu the United Status that does uot feel au ardent sympathy for these emigrants, and that does not wish them all the happiness which a state of exile and the recollection of tho misfortunes of their country will permit 1 We trust there Is not one, yot it is well known that Mr. Walsh, our consul at dec lured the Hungarian outbreak not to be a itatiunul uttuir, but seemed to deem it only the desperate effort of selfish lenders. Mr. Walsh is well known ns the correspondent of one or moro influential papers in thi. country, and he writes dowit Kossuth as a mean, cal culating coward, and this very Governor Ujltuy, us rather entitled to our abhorrence instead of our sympa thy. The question readily occurs why tliis consul who has so outraged public opinion in this country is permitted to return his plucc, especiali jrwa it was an nounced months ago, apparently by authority, that he would be speedily superseded. It would seem that Mr. Clayton, siuro the publication of his letter to Dudley Maun, and the disclosure of the policy and sentiments of the Administration in regard to Hungarian affairs, would feel it to be inconsistent to keep Mr. Walsh iu his place, for his retention certainly implies approbation of his course. If the Administration meiin to be regarded us sincere, (and tlmt they are so, there is not a particle of doubt.) iu their expressions id' sympathy for the Hungarians, they must not siihtuiu a public agent in the focus of European intelligence who is tho re viler of their course and the champion of their oppressor, the Autocrat of all tho Russia. Stuco penning the foregoing wo have seen the B- ton Courier from which wo copy the following, which Htrougty corroborates our views. Wo think that no fear of the cry of proscription should caime tho Administration to hesitate long iu u cuc of this kind. We have no doubt tho general voice of the country, and the trtio understanding of our position on the Hungarian question among the nations of Europe require somo action on tho part of the Executive. If wo are io bo held reBpoiHible for (ho opinions uud writings of nr diplomatic agents abroad, those agents should cer tainly represent correctly tho feelings and views of the Administration : FonEio.v Influknck. Our attention has been called to several letters from Europe, recently published in various parts of tho country, relating to the intluence of American public alhiirs on tho oilier sido of the At lantic, us exerted there in n manlier hostile loino spirit nl American institutions and tho liberal tendencies of rhengo. It has been remarked, in connection with this topic, that the persevering eitorts of am-h men as Robert Walsh, with the journals they have known how to control and intluence, have greatly contributed to check that -sympathy tho American people would else have left with the struggles of the Italian patriots. No n 1st the samo may bo said, to sumo extent, ol the uiiganati struggle. Nevertheless, the pcopto of this country are, nine out of ten, well-wishers to the progress of liberty in uropo. no iiouoi Mr. v aisu, iroio ma umciui pow toll, exercises some influence hostile to this cause, by 'tins of his letters. This influence increased, so r as it is supposed ihat his views uro acceptable to r government, lint tins is not the greatest unscniei tho cae. Mr. VvuUh s writings in favor of Austria l the Emperor id' Russia, uud a-uiiiMt Hungary, issuth and his compatriots, are largely rend in Eu-pe. They ore considered as, to some extent, official, d therefore seeming to reproaeiit our country and government us taking part with legitimation, they are ry well calculated to dishearten tne irieuus oi nuer-and to slreiiijlhen the cause of despotism. Aeeor- iing to the letters wo have seen, it appears that in aly, at leat, (nud doubtless elsewhere) the intluence our government hns been actually un tint side ol via an, Aoit in. This is certainly a mutter which demanos the notice f tho administration. Why is the recall ol Mr. Walsh, iino time since announced, thus delayed I Has the bniuistration changed its views, nnd do they now Mb to endorse Mr. Walsh s political opinion? f Willi hat consistency can they avow sympathy for llunga- , while their most active, eincieut ami outer oiieniy kept in n station which gives power and i -fleet to his nslilitv I Why ore such men us Nile, at Turin, and Cass, nt Rome, continued iu their place, while tln-ir conduct is such as is represented f In regard to the latter, n writer from Italy, who evidently speaks from iiowledue. avs No human being could Imvo been more untitled ty em per, nanus ami manners, ami ny a iouii want oi plomatic skill and tact lor such u cnticut emergency, as was Mr. Cass. To this hour he lias not recognized he Criminals who rule iu Rome in the maimer ol the pe, and remains in Rome (receiving his salary) in a rt of amphibious state, being " neither fidt, Hesli nor d horrinu." It is not now dented by his iutimai friends that he was, from his arrival iu Home, inimical to Roman Freedom, and desirous ol (ho overthrow tho Republic nnd the ultimated res torn lion of tho Pa pal rower; uiueeu, no acKnowieuifus as mum iioiieu era. having exhausted their vocabulary of abuse ou the subject of proscription, are preparing now to turn in their wrath on their own party friends in office, on the presumption, we suppose, that a Locofoco officeholder is bound to commit even official peculation, if thereby ho can bring reproach on a Whig Administration. Pros ident Taylor is abused for removiug such men, and yet he is hold responsible if ho trusts them and they steal to furnish a theme for party capital to their Ineuds. The false rumor about Mr. McLaughlin originated in the fact that about three months ago a temporary mail agent purloined mouey from a letter at Springfield, belonging to Baldwin, Dibble and Work, Now York. The discovery was made through the vigilance of the clerks at the Columbus post-office, and our Whig Postmaster deserves great credit for the promptness with which he acted iu the matter. Mr. Matthews, the agent, immediately proceeded to Springfield and arrested the delinquent; and wo insist that tho character of Mr. McLaughlin, who is entirely innocent, shall not be martyrized by his own political friends ufter he has escaped the axo of tho " bloody Taylor dynasty." United Suites Marshal for Ohio. On the 27lh iust. Gen. G. A. Jones of Mt. Vernon was confirmed as U. S. Marshal for the State of Ohio. All right. Full Particulars of the Disaster to the ltelle of the West. Cincinnati, Friday morning, April 2G, 1800. Ou Monday evening, 2-M inst. 6 o'clock, the Belle of the West left the Port of Cincinnati bound for St. Louis, with about two hundred and fifty or moro passengers, including deck and cabin all told, with a crew of lortv in number. No freight was taken out of the hold after the boat left this port, and nolhini; done, and the hatch es not raised, except the usual examination of the watchman, previous to the discovery of the smoke. When opposite Florence, In.. I discovered smoke is suing through tho joints of tho forwurd hatch, which Save me some uneasiness, when I called for one of the eck hands, who was standing near, to raise the hatch to see if the cause was below : the appearance of more smoke proved my suspicion to bo correct, and I immediately ran lo the hurricane deck and ordered the pilot to laud the boat, that there was tire in tho hold. Next eturncd to said hatch ami found two men had gone down with the hose. I ordered them to get up alt and got all tho pasrtengors on deck forwurd, while I went through the cabin us.-is ted by the second Clerk, and Stewurd to wake up tho passengers, which I did with all the speed Hssible, ami exerting them to prudence that the boat wus ou firo in tho hold. "Save your lives, and leave baggage, the boat is lauding, and all may escape if you will act prudently." The awful scene that followed, nftor the alarm, you can better imagine than 1 can describe, from the lust time 1 discovered the smoke until the boat wan landed, which I do not think wax outsido of tivo minutes. hud under my protection a lady, the wife of Major Vincent Phillips, ol Hullidaysburgli, Pa., whom I felt very anxious about, as she was iu the very extreme end nt tho ladies' cabin, and the only lady unprotected on board to my knowledge. I worked my way through to tho room, and pushed tho door open, found her get- up, Iciving heard the ulurtn, but was dressed o ily in part. I told her to come quick, the boat was ou fire. She handed mo a portion of her clothes and turned to get her trunk. 1 told hor to let tho trunk romoin she might loose tier lite, as both could not be saved. Many had gone ahead nt us, but I succeeded in uettiui! her out on shore, when she requested me to leave her, and return to the assistance ol others, tlint she could get up the bill without assistance, as it was not steep. Up to this time the tire had not reached the cabin floor. On my return 1 met many who were trying to save baggage; and many children were pushed and crowded off the gangway into the water. I then went in and pulled them out one after another, and passed them to the more, and 1 then cleared the gangway ol trunks and boxes for the passengers to make their escape ; at this itiHtaut, I discovered a keg of powder, which I gather ed up and halloed 'powdkr,' at the same lime holding it up that alt who might see it, would understand my meaning, if they could not hear mo, to escape from the edi cts of an explosion. For me to escape was impos sible, should any more be iu the hold. After makiug tho exhibition, I went into the river with the keg in or der to get it entirely out of the roach of fire, but unfor tunately the current wus carrying it towards the fire again, I then run in and got it out, at which timo the ate came and took it from me and curried it to the river below the boat. Samuel Masters, the carpenter, used every effort to Hex in the hold to scuttlo the boat, but un raising the hatch, so dense was the smoke and heat that it was im- posnible. Iu t lying to replace it, a fireman, who was assisting mm, fell down throiiL'h, I io carpeiiitr, iu vught him by the heels as ho b THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 25. 18.il). The Steamer Anthony Wayne. A letter from a gentleman of intelligence at Sandusky to us states that the number of lost will probably amount to about 100. Many incidents of a most distressing character are related. Our Wend informs us that the feeling against the captain is very strong and general among the passengers. We hope he may be able to remove the imputations that are uow against him. We do not see any upology for his getting into the principal boat with some half dozen others of the crew aud brutally repelling the attempts of ull the passengers, struggling in the water, to get into his boat. Our friend mentions thut one womuu, from near Spriugfield, Ohio, with hor young child, is at his house. She saved her child by binding it to heraelf with a blanket and then sustaining herself by the sash of the saloon. Her ringers were out to tho bone. She was taken off by the mate, to whom much praise is due for his efforts to save the perishing. The Manorial Titles In New York. For several days past a very interestiiic aud excitim? trial has beeu guing on at Hudsou. N. V.. involving the validity of tho titles to tho immense manorial estates of the Livingstons iu and near tho Hudson rivor. John Vun Duron was the leading attorney for tho tenants. uud has managed their defence with decided ability. I Upon a motion tor a nonsuit, the cause wus suspended I from tho jury, and the parties finally agreed that tho questions of law and of fact iu tho case might be determined by Judge Wright, before whom the cae was tried, at a special sitting at Albunv on the 27th inst. Tho defence rested upon the ground that the patents Livingston were void, having been obtained bv and at the time. This case is oue involving immense consequences to a large population of that State. Wheat uud Flour. From different parts of tho State the accounts seem be favorable for a good crop of Wheat the present season. Iu many sections, our correspondents write tiiutihe prospect it very hue. Iho price of Hour in the Eastern cities is vet low. and the prospect is uot very encouraging for au increase. The very heavy failure of the Wheat crop in Ohio, tho past sousou, has uot effected the price to any perceptible degree, at all events has not advanced (ho price, as many supposed it would. Tho immense Wheat fields i Now York, Pennsylvania, Indiana. Michigan. Slc. have kept up tho supply and kept down the price. Tho quality of the Wheat of Ohio last your was very poor, uoouriour cannot very well bo mado from hrivelled Wheut. Some of our millers have succeed ed iu making a very excellent article by taking extra pains iu separating tho Wtieat so as to remove the defective kernel. We have seen and have used in our family a very excellent article of Flour, made at tho Koscoe mills ou the Muskingum, and think it fullv uai to any wo nave over used. This Flour is kept Hand and for sale by Woodbury & Field, grocers, f this city, where our citizens cun be ture of finding gardly estimate of its service in enligktenius mankind wiin o-ei'isimis ol u, Supreme Court. Mr. H:ile ollered a resolution the other day, referring tins subject to the committee on Printing for inquiry and a report. I hope they will not forget to call Mr. toote t the stand, and nut forget to inquire how Mr. Kitchiecaiiie to be asked to sit in judmuit onhis own inui. when this resolution has been sufficiently digested, there is anuthor nice contrivance by some philologists called " pickings "pending before the Senate, intended to serve the same end uud for the benefit of tho samo parties, which shall receive the benefit of public inspection. The Union was voted i 10,000 bold-ya few years ago by a Locofoco majority, without having a particle of claim. The Printing committee of the Senate shall not slide another upprupri.niou of tho same kind in, as thoy now propose, without a little exposure. They may vote the money, but they shall also " face tho music :" tor whoum m u-nll Minblt.il in dance as thoso who are compelled to pay the piper. INDEPENDENT. The Whigs of Darke county lend off in their nominations fur the fall elections. Our friend George Ward, Esq., is ro-no mi hated as tho candidate for Represeniu-tivo. This is ull right. Mr. Ward was well liked as a member last winter, and won the favorable reward of that we will make no comments about the cold cut by I the members generally. We hope and trust he will be the editor at the doctrine of the Nicholson letter in the I re-elected. ITT A correspondent of tho N. Y. Tribune, writing from St. Josi-nlis. Mo., computes the overland emigra tion this year at 50,1X10. Now if wo allow each of them 300 as au outfit, tho aggregate will bo fifteen million dollars taken fruin the country hy litis outlet nloue. As much or moro bus gone by the way of the Isthmus, and if wo reckon tho vessels, goods, aud mer-elniiuliso tfenoiidlv. sent lo California, the amount will be moro than one hundred millions withdrawn from the active capital of tho country. In return, only thirteen millions liavo been received from that country. Taking this fuel in connection with the diminished cob ion and tobacco crop of lust vear. the liidit foreign do- . inn t id fur agricultural productions, and our increased imports, and our laitii in tho ruciitterutivii energies oi our country must bo strong indeed, if we believe she will pass too crisis without a shock that will reach tiic very centre of our commercial and manufacturingsystem. The Oibiuet. Tho National Intelligencer slates from authentic fo rmation, that all stories which have beeu put afloat about discord in the Cabinet, and the wish of Gen. Tay or to make changes, are groundless and fulse. Such denial, we presume, will put an end to that sort ol stories for awhile. Wo havo noticed for somo timo intimations from cer tain Whig letter writers, that a change in the Cabinet was probable. Wo learn from other sources thut certain Whig members of Congress have been willing to add weight to these rumors, in the hope of producing a hange. But the Intelligencer says that the members of the Cubiuut gel along well together, and that the resident does not desiro a change, aud will not be maxed into making one. This is right. Wo believe that some uf the members of the Cabinet are men who itiug less political strength and iiillueuce to tho gov- eminent than others who might be found to fill their places. But wo have hoard of no want of ability or fidelity on their part, in the performance of the duties itf their respective stations. And wearogludthat Gen, Taylor is nut the man to be driven by a little or a good deal of outsido manu'uvemtg, to change Ins purposes, Those who expect to find him either a weak or a wa vering mall will be dianppniuted. It is decidedly a poor business, in our opinion, for Whigs in Congress or out to lend thcuiNelvea to such movements. lb Whias of the country havo no atretiih to spare in that sort of controversy with one another, should uisr Bit. Taylor find it proper or convenient to re-arrange is Cabinet alter awhile, ii wot.'d bo nothing new or strange. But wo have no reason io suppose no con templates anything of tho sort. It no did, wo trust In would nevor do It under circiimstaiicin unfavorable to tho reputation of tho gentlemen concerned. Win thev took their places with him in tho Executive Di pnrlments they accepted situations of responsibility and peril. It was foreseen Hint a majority ofOungre would attempt to discredit the Administration by ut- tucks upon them. Wo tiut thev mil slum! to tin posts. The Whig poity and the country can gain noth ing by yielding to tho factions personal warfare now being waged by tho majority in Congress, Wo are glad to bo assured thut tho President is as firm ns rock. It is what the country expects and wishes. members of Congress wo would say a won), and that Don't be too anxious lo take caro of tho President and Cabinet. Look a little to your own busine Your sosaiou, so fur, has been not only useless, but re liculous mid disreputable. U stands very low lit pi lie estimation. Aud if we arc not greatly mistaken, Gen, Taylor and his Cabinet stand much better with the country than you do. Wo would ltko to be re- sjiectful, but with due deference, you will permit us to say that the common opinion is, that the country never had such a miserable Congress before." owu through, but was recovered by vMOL'lit him bv the heels na In lVlf. This misfortune caused the tire to get too strong for them to replace tho natch, tie (the carpenter) tells he did not leave there until he had examined the ieds of l he deck passengers, supposing, through fright, ome might have left their children ; out found none, ,nd the next thing for him wus to got ashore, which he lid by getting lo the hurricane deck and coming down the derrick and spar, losing tools, ha'gago and all. After all was saved that could be saved ; we then proceeded to assist iu making the passengers as comforta ble as circumstances would admit. 1 had tires built a-long the shore, the houses beiug occupied by the wouii- led. 1 cannot close without expressing a deep souse of gratitude towards my officer and crow, who, to a mail, stood to his post from beginning to end. Nearly nil ot the above stuiemeuu tell under my observation and are correct. One question is frequently asked, and that is, how is that all the officers and crew were saved, which is mlv answered. The accident occurred at li!o clock at which timo a change of watch takes placo. Tho! not on watch were iu the act ol getting up, being just ailed; consequently, wo bad tho assistance ot all in lace ol halt the crow, to aid in rendering assistance. return my sincere tnauKs to me several steam boats. viz: Visitor. Hermann, Diadem, Citizen, and John Adams, for their kindness and liberality extended to our passengers and crew. D. S. JAMES, Captain, l"e There is a move making iu the Massachusetts Legislature which mav result in a commutation of Wtdister's miniahmmit. Hv the new act. if missed. persons under sentence of ifoath are placed in the State rnson lor one year. The Bitter-Eudcrs, and their a'luudcr- lng of the Nation's Treasury There uppears to be considerable inquiry into the tho workings of Locofocoism for some time past about the Treasury ut Washington. Almost every day brings light some deep laid ami success I ul plot for plunder ing the cash. The instincts of the party uro just as strong uow as in the days of S wart w out and Boyd and 'i co aud Hams, or of Barney and Yontz and Mulrine und others m Ohio. We have seen no case that shows the true character of the Ditter-Euders more completely than the one described below, by tho Wuchiiigtoii CorresKndent of the Philadelphia North American. We commend the case to the consideration of those virtuous souls who havo had surh spasms over the Galphin claim aud oth ers of the kind. The Union that pink of honest propriety ! has been engaged for a fortnight iu assuiliug the Cubinet, upon a piesllou oi luci, which ia uow uuuer itivesugaiiou oe ore a Committee of Congress, ami hns endeavored, bv base insinuation, to create prejudicial impressions on the nublic mind as to the merits or the chum and the parties concerned in its allowance. 1 shall dot stop to discuss too gross mid mteiitiun! InjiialM of rock a course, or to waste words upon a print, which is so sensible to every obligation ol duty, or honor, nnd lecency. But since the Union has conveniently, and Tho Postmaster at Springfield. Ohio, has heen detect ed by the secret mail-agent, Matthews, in emhexvliug money from letters passing through the office. The frequency of official peculations uudor iho Taylor dy nasiy muni no excci-timii ""'j'k i" un, i ir ti lull 'II and other ' high-minded" gentlemen of thai incorruptible party. Well, it must. Iiotton Pint, l"p" Wo clip tho above paragraph from the Washington Union ol the 'ijth inst., which soeuis to bo going the rounds of Iho bitter-end press. We presume our worthy Locofoco friend, Mr, McLaughlin, tho Postmaster at Springfield, will not thank his political friends fur their efforts to ejoct him from an office, worth $1,000 per year, hy flt accusations, merely to 1 gratify their spite against the presout Administration. It proves conclusively, at any rate, that the bitter end Ureudful Mono. Destruction of Property and Lou of Life I -Three Steam boats injured: : A Jtat-ooat sunk ana thrtt persons arownca : ! ! Between throe and fouroVlock, yesterday afternoon, storm broke in uikii us from the south-west, accom panied by wind, thunder aud lightning, and following the line of tho river, swept along the lower level of the city with fearful virulence, creating the utmost con sternation, and doing serious damage : Boats were forced from their moorings, cliimme were blown down from their places, and the roofs of several houses were torn off, aud the entire extent of hun ace wo were unable to ascortaiu, at alato hour last night, but we apprehend disastrous news iroin points, within the ran no of the storm. Ibe cliimnics ot tho steamer Ulipper (So. t, lying nt ho wharf, woro blown down, aud a portion of tho pi lot house of the G. W. Kendnll was blown off. The :abins of the steamers Gen. Washington and Beacon, at tho ship yards above, were shattered almost to iiieces, and much other damage was done to tlio steam mats both at the lauding and points above. 1 he storm was so sudden, that a small girl, living on Frout street, near Ludlow, was struck by the post of an awning, which was blown down, and immediately killed. A flat-boat, ns we learn by Mr. Robert Lindsay, sunk near the foot of Four-Mile Bar. and three iiertom were drowned. 1 wo ot them from near lieimotit, Ky., named Drysou, were twiu brothers, and on the wuy to New Orleans on their first adveuturo iu busi ness. Ueorge Cummins, an aged man, perished, ami Mr. Lindsay, our informant, saved himself by swim ming to shore. In the upHr part of the city tho effects of the storm were nut so severe, it seemed io conune useii, in h lestructivo course, to tho valley. Cm. Dispatch-General Taylor. Of General Taylor, our truly straight-forward 1'resi- lent, tho Stanton spectator says, it may be predicated that hu does nil things sensibly, ho speaks sensibl acts sensibly, lights sensibly, and administers the go1 'innioiit soiiHiblv. lie is precisely one ol those me if whom it can be said, tho more you know of him, tho more you like mm and the more you ronmio hun. Without by-ends in view ol by-ways ol rend ing them, he presents a imrfect contrast to tho trail m politician or the political partisan, utisciiooieii in pa tv tactics, ho takes nositiou for tho Cuuntry unnwt by demagogues aud factionists, ho ' respectfully di dines" to surrender principles he deems essential I the peace, safety, and genera I welfare of the country. Ho was early tried in the field anil never found want m if, closing his in unary career in a Dime oi gtory. n was tried as soon as seated iu the Presidential chaii by difficult and delicate questions with foreign ii ers ; tried by an opposing party press, opening upon mill won lis nrutiery ui aiun-r im iivmnmi, as was never directed against any honest man ill tl ruuntrv. executing Henrv CluV. who stands forth un hurt aud uuscuthed, " head and shoulders " above most men. the living monument of the imiKitency of sue assaults, (ten. Taylor has been fuither tried in a recent struggle between the South and the North upon questions of solemn import, now, it is hupt-d, " fair wav of satisfactory adjustment, but presenting at one timo a crisis fearful in the extreme. No President of theso United Stales has ever met such an amount ot se-.i.L... i,. a.t abort a oeiiiHl. and involving matters of such momentous importance, both foreign and do mestic t nnd General Tavlor nns met mom as innu and as a patriot, capable of discerning the right, and firm in maintaining it. .... Tho whig partv, hrniiiiuuacumeu.iu pimuipu ., mm- oiiwriitulato itself. the President, uud Iho country. niton the Haltering prospects of all concerned. Xenia Torch Light. excellent article. surprisingly to many ol its It lends, ntiectod so much integrity, there n a utuo transaction involving the loo ting ot some eigiu or more inousaiiu dollars, with which tho public, may as well be entertained, until the Committee on the "Galphin claim" are prepared ro re- rt. To appreciate the case about to be presented, and understand the relation oi mo parties implicated, it must be known at tho outset, that tho proprietors of the Union, with a praiseworthy regurd lor tho Ion and fishes, succeeded in obtaining the contract for the :oiigresstona) printing, by putting turwurd a subordi nate in their office, who was made to underbid the ruinous rales ol the preceding contracts, by some 10 or Ut percent. Of course this stratagem secured the ill. and it rumor uo true, mr. niicme aim nir. u iviv his fidus Achates chairman of tlio committee of Wavs anil Means, became ttie bondsmen for work to bo executed iu aud for the benefit of tho Union estab- ishment. I shall not ch.irgo thut tins underbiddb a trick was plauned with a view ol potting possession of the printing and then exacting from a political major ity whatever measure ol remuneration could be obtained; but enndor compels mo to say, it has a remarkable squinting that wny; aud this inference is justified by the management through which the samo concern contrived to pocket tome $10,000, when thoy had a tacked jury in Hie nouso oi nenreaeniauves. uui the motive is not the matter to which I deiro to in- ite public attention. It is a moro serious and estab lished affair. During the Inst session ol Congress a resolution was passed by tho Senate, authorizing the publication of 10,000 copies ol me decision! oi uie oupreme court in the Passenger Cases, as they are inmiharly called. The printing was given to the contractors under the BW. The copies were iieuvercu, aim uio pamptllel rs-Tli. lotinater G. iieral has concluded an ar- ninimmtMit bv which the mails between Boston and Nhw York will he conveyed by Railroad. The time between the two cities will be about 74 hours, covered one hundred and eighty-one pages. Accord ing to the contract prices, the cost ot this wot k, it my in term nt ion is correct, ought to havo been about $1,- AOO, aud according tn the ordinary charges, it might have varied Irom y,500 to 4,000 dollars, as conscience nr nrinrioln or usage might suggest. The Unum concern rcnuercu a oiu ior pruning mis namohiet. in uie neigiiDoruoou oi jerry inousana aoi- lar! 1 1 or about the sum which was expended for the printing of the Senate during the whole session, i he pretext upou which that extortionate, enormous, and unprecedented charge originated, was this the law designates several classes oi pruning wiin nxeu prices, mid one class caiieu " nuacuunncruus, wiuioui a price. Poor " miscellaneous " was pounced upon to curry the hnri-cominirs of these disinterested patriots ; aud si tho contingent fund of the Senate was to stand the de pletion, like Doctor sangrauos, mey ueiermiuetl io nil-minister the lancet without compituctiou. All this turned up during tho recess of Congress, and just at the particular lime when the Union was exhausting its virtuous indignation ugaiust the alleged corrupt wnt of the party iu power. Tim ixce cm anil menionoua omcer. wm nan hai L-o of tho Senatorial money bags, rebelled at tho bill oi" fortv thousand dollars for a mmphlot of llll pages, lie had beard claims uciore iu uts day, oui oi quite SO iiMHiew una, ur oi aucii rvuiariitinie nro nor nous. Mr. root that worthy man ot all work, fmin hutching a Convention at Nashville, down to in ducting an editor into the Unum, ns ho did Mr. Burke was on hand and employed bis Senatorial skill in be half ot this meritorious demand. Hut the treasury Cerlierus resisted; aud finally a compromise Mr. Footo is great on compromises was patched up, hy which the claim was referred to a venerable patriot, whose experience in the "art preservative ol nrts, whose benevolent character. Rnd whose uuselhsh na ture, were considered as pre-eminent qualifications for his derision on a uucatton involving nil his pockets, to gether with those of his partner. A guutU-imiu from Virginia, "the mother of States and statesmen t" a ffeiillomnn who beloiiifi d to the 11 elite ul the Democ isi'v a eei i tie in nil who is well ' known in Rich momi ;" a gentleman who has been cl in met or t ed ns tho "Nestor ol the American press" 1 nomas itiicnie, Esquire, editor. was seiocieu as reieree. in took the csin into consideration. He consulted the an thorities, i. e. his pot kets ; he counted the chain ea of nn "extra;" he took liurko by the button ami un- fiM- .Iwa lht thi " t'orlv thiilisnild Would liol Stand tiro, il some villanous vung punned nis uisu; mm nu n in that spirit ol concession and iinigiianimiiy wh ivbi.-h lm it now ntllvinu the LMiod nnd truo men of ai parties, he deducted twenty-seven thousand from th amount, marched uo to the Trensiiry with his bi streaming like a pennant, bearing this glorious inscitp lion, "retrenchment III puoiio expenses fu.juu vniy, fobbed his vellow boys and returned to the temple t " nomocracy, t coiigrauuiiw me itouuui mi uiu (jn-nt nets ul his country. Now 1 maintain that that was not a bad day's work and without being much ol a tnukee, 1 can catiuuii ilii. timhta. Di duct the UoligroBSloual price n oui u urii n received, mid no cleared a C eioi nr.u imnmauu Lv tho op-ration. Deduct the moro liberal allowance nnd bo cleared something like trim' thousand on one httie. drttr HU lo oh ot IKl pnges, no uuu, aim oau nriiitina. at that. Mr. Ritchie is a man of sense, an muintr intra th art of nrilililig. He proved It by hi verdict in tliis case, "and by his refusal tn degrade the craft of which be is an honorable member, uy any mg Correspondence of the Journal. Collins splendid new Steamer Atlantic, Iu departure Death ol'a Fireman-Arrival from t hugres-Flva N learners ai Panama-A Nwedltli Skip New Vork PostmaNter-Em I K ration to CaJiondaand iu effects upon business, dVc Tho American mail stourner sailed to-dav. at noon. for Liverpool. She has on board about one hundred and twenty passengers and a fair cargo of merchandise. Tho price lor passage is ten duliurs higher than that of the Cuimrd line, and, this considered, the amount ot patron u go which sho has received on this her first voyage speaks well for tho estimation iu which she is held, The Atlantic left her dock precisely at 12 o'clock, M. bvery pier Irom Canal street to tho Battary was more or less crowded with spectators who hud assembled to see her take h r departure and bid her God-speed to her destination. Sho moved majestically through the rtortn-river and down tho buy, presenting us hiiu opiecf of naval architecture as we have ever witnessed. The cost of this steamer has been not far from I jOO.ODO. We will now await, with no little iuterest, to uicertnin the timo which she will employ in reaching England. Hor machinery being new and untried, the present voyage cannot bo expected to bo as favorable in point of speed, ns she is capable of making. AU tho biigine-houses, in our city, are dressed in mourning, in consequence of the untimely end of a uiemborof engine company No. U. who wusnccidental- ty killed, at the fire in Front street on Thm sduy evening lust. While in the discharge of his duty, on Iho roof if uti udjuiiiing building which wus four storks high, he foil through the scuttle aud through the hatchways which were immediately below, to tho first floor. He was taken up iusensibleuiid expired shortly alter. His funeral is to take place to-munow, und will be attended by tho whole fire department, iho association of ex- mipt firemen, und also by iho members of our com mon council, in their ofhciul capacity. The corouer's jury, iu rendering a verdict, in this case, expressed the pinion that measures should be adopted to compel oc cupant, of stores to havo the hatch ways always prop erly covered over to prevent similar accidents in future. At present, there is scarcely a store iu our city, of mag. titude, which bus those guarded on tho upper floors. From this cause, many accidents of the above nature t have heretofore occurred, ami, we cannot doubt, that we will hear of others, from time to time, until such protective means shall bo employed, as thosesuggested. Yesterday we had the artivnl here of the steamers Crescent City and Philadelphia from Chigrcs. Noth ing later wus received, however, from California. At Panama, when these packets arrived, there was uo less tliun five steamers bound for Sail Francisco, besides several sailing vessels. Ample opportunity appears, therefore, to be furnished uow, for reaching the El-Do rado, from the former placo. Some good vuyugei have been made, by sailing vessels, between Panama and San Francisco, which has resulted iu bringing this mode of conveyance quite in favor, to the neglect somewhat of the steamers. Tlio trip being made, by the former, in from forty to fifty days, and tho rates of fare, being much reduced, many of the adventurers are iu-duced to givo them the preference. The Swedish sloop-of-wnr Njardeu, is now in our port, having arrived here a day or two ago from a cruise iu thu West Indies. A snlute of twenty-one guns was yesterday fired from Governor's Island, in honor of her visit to our harbor, which she returned. She curries eighteen guns and her crew is composed of one hundred nnd fifty-uiue men. She will probably remain hero several days, by which an opportunity will be offered to her officers, for inspecting the ob- objects of interest in our metropolis. Wc have advices Irom Washington that the Senate has confirmed tho nomination of J. V. Brady, our present Poat-mnstcr, appointed by General Taylor. This was expected by all. A more popular mail, than the present incumbent, has never filled the office. Mr. Brady is not one of these " stand still " men, who move iu the footsteps of their predecessors, nnd ad hero strictly to the plans pursued hy them, notwithstanding the changes which may bo demanded to keep pace with the increase of business, which is given birth to, by an advancing ago. He is ever on tho alert to expedite the affairs of his department. Sinco ho has held the office, moro accommodations have been mado for the benefit of the public thm during the ten years previ ously. He is of tho kind of men who should bo espe cially selected for offices of this chnructer. Our busi ness commuuity are ready to acknowledge his seal to benefit their interests. Exchange on England is advancing, the rate for good bills being now from 109 to UO. It may therefore be that shortly specie will be exported to some extent. Business does not yet assume the degree of activity hich wus cxtiected. It is tho general impression that the immense emigration lo California from the West is exorcising a deleterious influence ou our trade this sea- Money is being diverted from its usual channel, aud instead of finding its way hither lor tho purchase goads, is being expended m the places bordering on the extreme West, for outfits, or being carried, tu small sums, by tho ndvonturers, to the shores of the Pacific, These sums respectively considered are of no great moment, but taken in the aggregate, they are extreme- large. It is certainty a fact, that notwithstanding tho frequent receipts of large sums of gold dust, California has not yot, by any means, returned to us a fourth part of tlio money which it has tnken from us. From here steamers are sailing al tho rate of two or three weekly f r Chagres. Recently the average nunv r of passengers carried on each trip cannot be lew than throe hundred. Now of these we cannot suppose mt any set out with loss thin one thousand dollars, in cash, while thoso starting with speculative idens sre possessed, in many instances, of fifty times thit amount Taking the first figure, however, and, in a very quiet and unostentatious way, wo bell dd $3 00. 00 J with drawn from circulation here, with the departure of oach separate band of adventurers, by every Clmgres steamer. Looking at the matter iu ihis light we can speedily discover that it needs hrga returns to keep puce with our disbursements. And, in addition, pil ing fJ.'iO to the credit of each man who Is starting on tho overland route for Culilormn, w hen estimating the numbers who are omigrnthig thus, an idea oan be for-med of the wealth which is being taken from our country to bo transferred to the El Dorado of the Pacific. Will it not rrouiro heavy receipts ol gold dust yet, to compensate for the drain of specie which is being made upon usT Yours truly, Soil I ii (Hit. The Republic concludes an article noticing the com ments of tho Union upou the late treaty with Nicara gua with iltc following. It is a capital hit at the de termined obstinacy oi mo union w uuy aci oi a mi in-istratton t The Union concludes its article with these words, ,t in double caps: "wi havk sr.r..t sold m thi British." The Union may well excintin oi useii in that Innguage. It will bo believed. Wodonotiut. mate tint tho t'nia wus sold for a con-ti .fenttiou m the sense of lucre; and wo doubt if it would lotch much in any miction. But its panions sen upon an nrca- snma. its inured ot rresnM-n i n the Administration was in n controversy withM I out-sin, the IVm inU'lit wi II have aid of itself, " We nre sold to the French." Uunii the Key eon-co. emr u was "sold lo Iho BpiiuMi.' In mo manor ui m unship it was " sold to tho uuun. in cumera times it weitutjii told useii m I" "vinv, 4i n-ies aloud, "We nre s dd " " untisiiv mm me next sale it makes of itself will bo the sale which ai nice inado by Dr. Faustus. nr Tho American mail steamer Atlantic If ft New York for Liverpool, on Saturday lust. This steamer is intended as a model of perfection, in the present stile ot the arts and sciences in bio nnboat building. 1 he cost of construction was nearly (iU0,00l). The rlmrge for passage is ten dollars higher thuiuhe English steam-ers, aud iu arraiigenieuts.ducoiaiionsniidconveuienct 1 of all kinds, surpasses any vessel unit.